Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-04-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
since several different kinds of accessibility can be provided, which kind of accessibility is needed also needs sorting out. Apple in 10.4 Tiger had things set up such that if the computer was completely hooked up including a set of speakers a question as to which language a user needed came up

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-04-05 Thread Rich Morin
I've been musing about a comment Samuel Thibault made a while back: > On Mar 2, 2020, at 07:57, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Rich Morin, le lun. 02 mars 2020 07:40:42 -0800, a ecrit: >> ... More generally, is there a better way to provide accessibility at boot >> time? > > The question is how

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
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

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
; From: Rich Morin > To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org > Cc: debian-accessibil...@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: boot-time accessibility issues > Resent-Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:29:21 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-accessibil...@lists.debian.org > > The idea of detecti

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-12 Thread Rich Morin
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. 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,

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-12 Thread Devin Prater
gt; To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org >> Cc: debian-accessibil...@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: boot-time accessibility issues >> Resent-Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 02:07:16 + (UTC) >> Resent-From: debian-accessibil...@lists.debian.org >> >> Jude DaShiell said: >

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
full circle, solutions zero. On Thu, 5 Mar 2020, Rich Morin wrote: > Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 23:54:14 > From: Rich Morin > To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org > Cc: debian-accessibil...@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: boot-time accessibility issues > Resent-Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 0

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-11 Thread Rich Morin
Jude DaShiell said: > If dummy was used for monitor type, the screen reader could come up talking > without any monitor attached. ... I can think of a couple of issues with this approach. First, there are various reasons for leaving a monitor off a system. For example, if a RasPi is being

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-05 Thread Rich Morin
> On Mar 5, 2020, at 03:30, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > One thing I am missing in your description is: how is the system getting > installed in your use case? Is it installed by the blind user himself, > or by somebody else? Ideally, the system hardware and software could be installed and

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2020-03-05 at 07:16 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > If dummy was used for monitor type, the screen reader could come up > talking without any monitor attached. Many linux distros including > debian can get a monitor turned on and off during operation and don't > let a screen reader know now

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
on boot to eliminate the firmware complaint. On Thu, 5 Mar 2020, Rich Morin wrote: > Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 03:53:30 > From: Rich Morin > To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org > Cc: debian-accessibil...@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: boot-time accessibility issues > Resent-Date: Thu, 5

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Rich Morin, le jeu. 05 mars 2020 02:53:30 -0600, a ecrit: > I don't know all the ins and outs of preseeding, etc. So, I'll talk about > use cases. I'm mostly looking for a way to make freshly installed systems > (e.g., PC, RasPi) accessible in two situations: One thing I am missing in

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-05 Thread Rich Morin
Thanks to everyone for considering these questions, offering suggestions, etc. Here are some comments and clarifications. I don't know all the ins and outs of preseeding, etc. So, I'll talk about use cases. I'm mostly looking for a way to make freshly installed systems (e.g., PC, RasPi)

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
john doe, le lun. 02 mars 2020 19:33:22 +0100, a ecrit: > Actually, creating a new cd iso that would have accessibility in mind > could be one option. > > EG: > > debian-10.3-accessibility-netinst.iso Yes, but I don't think it is a good option. For most impact, it's better to make the standard

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread john doe
On 3/2/2020 5:35 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > john doe, le lun. 02 mars 2020 17:24:48 +0100, a ecrit: >> On 3/2/2020 5:13 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: >>> john doe, le lun. 02 mars 2020 17:02:49 +0100, a ecrit: Prompting the user with a question asking if accessibility is desired would go

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 12:24:05PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: >Another possibility could be to have the installer check for a monitor >and if no monitor is connected, turn on a screen reader. That's not a valid assumption necessarily - what about on machines where a serial console is the default

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
n-accessibil...@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: boot-time accessibility issues > Resent-Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 16:26:05 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-accessibil...@lists.debian.org > > On 3/2/2020 5:13 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > john doe, le lun. 02 mars 2020 17:02:49 +0100,

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Mewtamer
I know this should probably be discussed on the Official Raspberry Foundation mailing list if such a thing exists, but a few thoughts: 1. At present, Raspbian enables ssh by creating a blank file called ssh in the boot partition and then booting the card. Could a similar method be used for

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mewtamer, le lun. 02 mars 2020 16:36:02 +, a ecrit: > 1. At present, Raspbian enables ssh by creating a blank file called > ssh in the boot partition and then booting the card. Could a similar > method be used for enabling accessibility? Probably. The details are probably to be seen with them

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
rg > Subject: Re: boot-time accessibility issues > Resent-Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 15:57:33 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-accessibil...@lists.debian.org > > Rich Morin, le lun. 02 mars 2020 07:40:42 -0800, a ecrit: > > In another forum, I've been told that Orca

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
john doe, le lun. 02 mars 2020 17:24:48 +0100, a ecrit: > On 3/2/2020 5:13 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > john doe, le lun. 02 mars 2020 17:02:49 +0100, a ecrit: > >> Prompting the user with a question asking if accessibility is desired > >> would go a lon way. > > > > But we don't necessarily

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread john doe
On 3/2/2020 5:13 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > john doe, le lun. 02 mars 2020 17:02:49 +0100, a ecrit: >> Prompting the user with a question asking if accessibility is desired >> would go a lon way. > > But we don't necessarily want to ask the question on all Debian systems > at all boot. > > I'm

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
john doe, le lun. 02 mars 2020 17:02:49 +0100, a ecrit: > Prompting the user with a question asking if accessibility is desired > would go a lon way. But we don't necessarily want to ask the question on all Debian systems at all boot. I'm not saying that there is no solution. I'm saying that

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jude DaShiell, le lun. 02 mars 2020 11:03:28 -0500, a ecrit: > Apple solved this problem back in 2006. On the desktop, yes. Here we are talking about an embedded device. > That was when Mac OS Tiger 10.4 > became available. What Apple did was to put a message asking for > language to be used on

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread john doe
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

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
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.

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Rich Morin
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. So, recasting my question, what would it take to make these changes to the default Debian installation? - include Fenrir,

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Cyril Brulebois, le dim. 01 mars 2020 18:15:58 +0100, a ecrit: > Rich Morin (2020-02-29): > > 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

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Rich, Rich Morin (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 ju

boot-time accessibility issues

2020-02-29 Thread Rich Morin
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. As I understand it, Orca is generally installed as a dependency of a desktop. This makes me wonder whether a server