Re: Adding a chapter about accessibility in the handbook?

From: Rannug Blah <rannugblah_at_gmail.com>
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.
>>> >
>>>
>>>