boot-time accessibility issues
At Samuel Thibault's suggestion, I'm bringing some boot-time accessibility issues to this list. Please excuse any naivete on my part; I'm not an expert on many of these topics.
As I understand it, Orca is generally installed as a dependency of a desktop. This makes me wonder whether a server system would (or should) have it. This isn't an idle question: Ubuntu Server is available for the Raspberry Pi 4, but Ubuntu MATE is not.
Next, assume that a blind user has just installed a Debian-based system (e.g., Raspbian, Ubuntu) on a RasPi. If they want to access it via SSH, they'll need a running SSH daemon and a way to determine the RasPi's IP address. Avahi seems to be the Golden Path for zero-configuration networking on Linux. Might it be possible to enable this by default?
-r
P.S. I realize that Raspbian and Ubuntu have their own development teams, but it seems logical to start at the headwaters (Debian), then move downstream.
> On Feb 24, 2020, at 14:41, Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
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> Rich Morin, le lun. 24 févr. 2020 08:22:06 -0800, a ecrit:
>> The first notion has to do with the initial accessibility of the system. There is probably a minimum set of tools (e.g., Fenrir, Orca) that would let a user get started. If these were installed and configured properly on any Debian-derived system, a blind user could hit a well-known key combination and gain access.
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> Orca is curently installed by default on Debian systems, by being a dependency of task-{kde,lxde,lxqt,xfce,mate}-desktop and gnome. In most of these desktop environments, pressing control-logo-s starts Orca. Ideally, all desktop environments would support this shortcut. ...
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>> Finally, on systems based on the Raspberry Pi and similar devices, it would be helpful for the OS to come up with SSH and Avahi enabled, allowing the user to log in conveniently from another system.
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> Ssh is installed when you enable the ssh task. Apparently avahi is not, but that would be something to discuss with debian-boot@.
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