Re: Adding a chapter about accessibility in the handbook?
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 18:16:23 UTC
> 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 With regards to the script, everything I'm reading is telling me to write bash rather than csh. I'm confused, for trivial tasks such as installing a few packages and editing a file or two is a csh script ok or should I stick to sh/bash? On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 5:55 PM Rannug Blah <rannugblah@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 > > > 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. >> > >> >>