Re: boot-time accessibility issues
I would try something with timing and detection of a sound card in
addition to the monitor. Ubuntu systems use ks.cfg files Debian uses
preseed files. I saved from several years ago a ks.cfg file in braille
that was offered by a website in England and believe it or not actually
got ubuntu in an earlier version talking after an install from that
website file. I don't know if a preseed file is more desireable than a
kickstart file and I think I can find the braille notes in my pile of
braille papers here.
On Thu, 12 Mar 2020, Rich Morin wrote:
> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:28:49
> From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>
> To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
> Cc: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: boot-time accessibility issues
> Resent-Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:29:21 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
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> The idea of detecting the presence (or absence) of a blind-related device seems worth pursuing, even if there are some issues to be resolved.
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> For example, following Jude's notion of checking for a monitor, maybe Avahi and SSH could be enabled whenever a monitor isn't found. For that matter, enabling Orca (or whatever) by default when no monitor is present wouldn't be that big a problem for a sighted user. Devin's notion of checking for a braille display could be expanded to include a range of USB devices such as braille printers and such.
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> I've been wondering about the notion of checking for a USB flash drive that contains some sort of magic files. The files probably can't contain executable binary files (due to hardware incompatibility issues), but they could certainly contain textual configuration data. Can anyone suggest ideas for file content, format, naming, etc?
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