Hi Rich, Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> (2020-02-29): > 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. Fine questions, don't worry. And adding -accessibility instead of just Samuel to the loop. > 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. I don't think a server would install orca through dependencies, but we could certainly think about installing it when performing the installation with accessibility features turned on. I seem to remember that we tweak the first user's X session to propagate some settings, so I'm not sure what should be done in the case of a headless server… > 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? Such images are prepared without the installer. In Debian, Raspberry Pi images are prepared with those recipes, handled by the raspi team: https://salsa.debian.org/raspi-team/image-specs > 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. I would expect each vendor to have their own recipes, so you might want to contact each of them directly, rather than expect one change to flow into all other distributions (even if the idea behind this assumption would be true in the general case). I'm no Raspbian or Ubuntu specialist though, so my own views might be off anyway… Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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