Re: boot-time accessibility issues
Hello,
Rich Morin, le jeu. 12 mars 2020 09:28:49 -0700, a ecrit:
> 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.
The Debian Installer detects the presence of a braille device and then
enables accessibility automatically.
> For example, following Jude's notion of checking for a monitor, maybe Avahi and SSH could be enabled whenever a monitor isn't found.
That might be frowned on: opening such ports just because a monitor is
not detected seems a bit scary to me.
> 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.
Actually it would be. The accessibility stack slows applications down,
at least a bit, and thus we can't really enable it by default, only keep
it ready to be enabled on a shortcut press.
> 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?
This is actually what the GPII project is after: https://gpii.net/
Samuel
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