Hi Accessibility folks, I've got a fairly important bug/feature request that's accessibility related, and I'm hoping this list can help me find the appropriate place for it.
Here's the issue: When your root partition is encrypted, there is no way for a blind user to tell when to enter their encryption passphrase, or whether or not they have successfully unlocked the volume (group). The way we've done this in the past is to use a custom local-top/cryptroot script, which looks for an environment variable, which is set by /etc/initramfs-tool/conf.d/accessibility When $BE_ACCESSIBLE is set, our cryptroot does: on passphrase prompt (ascending tone): /bin/been -f 1000 -n -f 1500 on successful unlock (descending tone): /bin/beep -f 1500 -n -f 1000 What we don't have is a nice way to integrate this into the installation process. We drop in (or remove) /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/accessibility via a shell script containing a HERE doc (which also rebuilds the initramfs image). Not a great method, and I'd welcome ideas on how to do this in a more Ubuntu-y way. My inclination is to file a bug against initramfs-tools, and see what the maintainers of that package say. I'm a little worried that this might get lost amongst their almost 200 open bugs, but hopefully someone on this list can help get it prioritized as an accessibility issue. Thanks, -- Jeremy Zimmer IT Field Technician jere...@google.com
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