Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it.
You can configure brltty to choose none as the voice and silence that.
Perhaps it's time for debian to have an accessibility task that can be
deselected by those that don't need accessibility yet. All accessibility
programs that annoy the temporarily able could be put into that task and
have it either selected or not. For those that do need accessibility, it
would be nice if the installer would come up and speak over the sound card
giving the temporarily able the option to turn speech off for the install
like slint has done for the last couple years. Apple has done this with
Tiger 10.4 and every operating system it released since then. That's how
I installed and got my mac mini running without any sighted assistance.
If I had seen the screen and answered the question with the keyboard
quickly enough, the speech would never have turned on at all.
On Sun, 2 Jan 2022, gene heskett wrote:
> On Sunday, January 2, 2022 5:58:44 PM EST Pierre-Elliott B?cue wrote:
> > gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote on 02/01/2022 at 23:53:19+0100:
> > > Greetings All;
> > >
> > > Without any conscious prompting by me, te debian 11.1 netinstall for
> > > x86-64 systems installed and setup whatever was needed to bring the
> > > screen reader to life.
> > >
> > > Any thing related to a braile function that I try to remove wants to
> > > kill
> > > another 2 or 3 gigs of system with it.
> > >
> > > Quite distracting to a sighted user when that robotic voice, speaking a
> > > very broken bandwidth of what might be english, blaring out of ones
> > > speakers 20 db louder than firefoxes audio can I am sure, find a way to
> > > silence this w/o destroying the rest of the system. Removing orca will
> > > shut it up, but that leaves brltty spamming the daemon.log complaining
> > > about a missing library every 5 seconds. And that's close to 40
> > > megabytes a week.
> > >
> > > So, how does one shut up this useless to me, screen-reader and kill the
> > > log spamming at the same time?
> > >
> > > I think its great that folks have gone to that effort for the sightless,
> > > but why is that sort of stuff always made mandatory.
> > >
> > > I'd sure appreciate any help cleaning it out
> > >
> > > Thanks everybody.
> >
> > Removing brltty will only lead to the removal of its reverse
> > dependencies and so on. This stops at:
> >
> > * brltty-espeak
> > * brltty-flite
> > * brltty-speechd
> > * brltty-x11
> >
> > None of which you need.
> >
> That wasn't the end of the dependencies. There were 4 more I removed and
> had to kill 2 of them in memory with htop once they were removed, but the
> log is finally silent.
>
> Thank you. Both for the help, and for learning my language so well.
>
> > Theoretically, removing brltty and orca takes little with it.
>
> The first time I tried to remove brltty, the removal cascaded all the way up
> thru all of gnome and xorg. Scary.
>
> > I don't have brltty installed on neither my bullseye nor my unstable
> > installs.
> >
> > Regards,
>
>
> Cheers, Pierre-Elliott B?cue, Gene Heskett.
>
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