Re: boot-time accessibility issues
On 3/2/2020 4:57 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Rich Morin, le lun. 02 mars 2020 07:40:42 -0800, a ecrit:
>> In another forum, I've been told that Orca is a rather heavyweight solution for providing boot-time speech generation. It was recommended that I consider Fenrir, instead.
>
> Fenrir is also quite heavy-weight, since it brings python. Brltty would
> be much less heavy-weight (but still bring e.g. libicu)
>
>> So, recasting my question, what would it take to make these changes to the default Debian installation?
>>
>> - include Fenrir, with some sort of key combination to activate it
>
> On the Linux console there is currently no way to activate a program
> through a key combination.
>
> What is the installation use case, actually? Is it again the raspi case?
> As mentioned previously the raspi team handles it, so it'd rather have
> to be discussed with them.
>
>> More generally, is there a better way to provide accessibility at boot time?
>
> The question is how to detect that it is needed. We can't just install
> and run a screen reader by default on all Debian systems, so something
> needs to trigger the screen reader startup.
>
Prompting the user with a question asking if accessibility is desired
would go a lon way.
--
John Doe
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