Re: Adding a chapter about accessibility in the handbook?

> Hi,
>Eventually adding something into the installer would be ideal long term
because at the moment I have to do an alternate method for installing a
system other than the standard >installer.
>In Debian they use the s key at boot to launch the installer in speech
mode.

>Tom


Yeah having no tts or anything.. like.. high contrast or large fonts during
the installer is a blaring omission,
let's hope the people with the know-how will add those. Thank you for the
comment, I will at least get
the script up and running and post a link to it for testing.

Regards,
Gunnar

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 5:46 PM Tom Moore <tommym2006@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Eventually adding something into the installer would be ideal long term
> because at the moment I have to do an alternate method for installing a
> system other than the standard installer.
> In Debian they use the s key at boot to launch the installer in speech
> mode.
>
> Tom
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-doc@freebsd.org <owner-freebsd-doc@freebsd.org> On
> Behalf Of Rannug Blah
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2021 1:42 PM
> To: Pau Amma <pauamma@gundo.com>
> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Adding a chapter about accessibility in the handbook?
>
> >*nod* Good point. I was thinking about making the FreeBSD installer
> >itself do it but your approach works instead (or in addition) and would
> >be much quicker to implement and release.
>
> Even better if we could do both, so the script could be used if you
> installed already and the installer for the rest. My tcsh scripting skills
> are non existent, but I'm going to give it a shot.
>
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 5:29 PM Pau Amma <pauamma@gundo.com> wrote:
>
> > On 2021-09-23 16:58, Rannug Blah wrote:
> > > Yeah I know it's easy to get the package, what I'm referring to is that
> > > the
> > > average user might find it too cumbersome to do, as you have to now;
> > > install the package, find and pick a codex out of a list of many which
> > > you don't know anything about, manually edit the config files for yasr,
> > > pick a TTS server, configure that manually and so on.
> > >
> > > So I thought maybe I could write a script that automates these steps
> > > provide a link to it it the handbook or something?
> >
> > *nod* Good point. I was thinking about making the FreeBSD installer
> > itself do it but your approach works instead (or in addition) and would
> > be much quicker to implement and release.
> >
>
>