Re: Debian accessibility news

is accessibility [of all types] a formal priority in debian yet? e.g. in social contract? -- The Kafka Pandemic: The disease DOES progress. MANY people have died from it. And ANYBODY can get it at any time. "You’ve really gotta quit this and get moving, b

Re: Debian accessibility news

thank you for clarification. i am finding debian quite inaccessible to me and fear not being able to use it at all. so i appreciate your work. On 7/28/17, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Samuel Wales, on ven. 28 juil. 2017 16:51:38 -0700, wrote: >> is accessibility [of all

Re: Debian accessibility news

y might in principle be debian-specific. i have heard that stretch ddccontrol is broken in at least some cases. that would be a total dealbreaker for me; i could not use the computer without it.] On 8/8/17, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Samuel Wales, on mar. 08 août 2017 14:38:15 -0

Re: Debian accessibility news

ddccontrol broken, i meant the ability to control hardware backlight per se [not redshift workaround which is insufficient] and control the monitor on/off/standby status from the command line.] On 8/8/17, Samuel Wales wrote: > debian is the only linux i have used, so i don't know. it&#x

Re: Debian accessibility news

17, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Samuel Wales, on jeu. 24 août 2017 13:20:19 -0700, wrote: >> [by huge fonts i meant being able to increase font size in all areas >> of debian to huge. by huge dpi i meant having dpi be respected as a >> scaling factor. by no

Re: Debian accessibility news

moral leadership can be powerful all by itself. On 8/24/17, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Samuel Wales, on jeu. 24 août 2017 13:46:35 -0700, wrote: >> practically everything in debian is an upstream issue, except e.g. pm, >> installer, repo, right? > > Yes. > >> act

simple talking clock / reminder for when monitor is off and it is dark

i have to have all lights and monitors off at night. but i have to know the time so i can take medicine. i use slock and turn off monitor with ddccontrol. this might turn off mouse and keyboard; i wouild have to check. i want debian to tell me the time at certain times. for example tonight i h

Re: simple talking clock / reminder for when monitor is off and it is dark

th no problem so great. On 3/22/22, Will Mengarini wrote: > * Samuel Wales [22-03/20=Su 23:03 -0700]: >> [...] i want debian to tell me the time at certain times. > > Nobody has yet mentioned the festival package, which is a full > text-to-speech system. Once you have that installed

colors in firefox

i am not doing well so i hope this is coherent. i also hope that i will understand the responses. i am technically able, e.g. very able in elisp, but firefox and mime types and gtk and css are all difficult for me. thyey are some kind of labyrinth. this question is really about firefox colors pr

Re: colors in firefox

ack even though i am teloling it exactly what i want or soething. thanks for wading thorugh another post of inoherence. please feel free to ask questions. pelase be gentle. On 8/18/22, Samuel Wales wrote: > i am not doing well so i hope this is coherent. i also hope that i > will under

Re: colors in firefox

or erhaps the use system settings checkbox in the colors dialog is idemtent? On 8/18/22, Samuel Wales wrote: > ok, so for example the only thing i tried was to change settings in > that edit -> settings box in firefox in stretchand when i use system > settings, it does strange thi

Re: colors in firefox

: > Hello, > > Samuel Wales wrote: >> firefox colors are nearly unusable. there is blue everyuwhere. i >> already wear noir 570 glasses which is very dark amber. i have >> already set up redshift and ddccontrol and set monitor settings for >> low blue. i don&#x

Re: colors in firefox

> have you tried checking the option to "Always use color changes" or something like that rather than "Use System colors"? yes, i tried that and everything else i could on that dialog box. they all gae astonishingly bad results. tat is the dialog i was talking about though, yes. idk what use syu

Re: colors in firefox

i hope my posts are comprehensible enough. any ideas about making fiorefox colors better woud be appreacieated. tht could include css, gtk, extensions, about:config.

colors and fonts of debconf etc., a suitable xterm, vt

hi, hoping somebody can help. i am going to do a full-upgrade, and i have 2 things i have been trying to do so that i can get decent accessibility. 1. in various places, such as debconf, there is a tui in debian that is blue, grey, and red, with black text. e.g. dpkg-reconfigure sometimes use

Re: colors and fonts of debconf etc., a suitable xterm, vt

p.s. please include my email in the headers as i have not figured out how to get gmail to filter-in mailing list conversations that have me in them. so i tend to risk losing replies unless they to: or cc: me. thank you. On 4/3/23, Samuel Wales wrote: > hi, > > hoping somebody can he

Re: colors and fonts of debconf etc., a suitable xterm, vt

great answers thank you. more below. On 4/4/23, Samuel Thibault wrote: > export NEWT_COLORS='root=,black roottext=white,black window=,black > textbox=white,black border=white,black button=white,black > checkbox=white,black listbox=white,black' still working on this but looks possible. urxvt pe

Re: colors and fonts of debconf etc., a suitable xterm, vt

On 4/8/23, Samuel Thibault wrote: > You can paste with shift-insert. this does not paste.