Re: Adding a chapter about accessibility in the handbook?
- In reply to: Rannug Blah : "Re: Adding a chapter about accessibility in the handbook?"
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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 18:28:55 UTC
Nevermind I'll just do both, I have all the documentation I need, I'll keep you posted. On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 6:16 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 > > 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. >>> > >>> >>>