A big thank you! - accessibility for blind users from fresh install

shuteye

Hi all - I wanted to reach out and express my heart-felt thanks to the GOS dev team for:

Creating "graphene OS speech services", this TTS is super high quality, and more importantly, has the coveted "fastboot" permition which enables blind folks like myself to enter our pins when our devices reboot :)
including "talkback" screen reader as part of the default Graphene install image, enabling folks to hold down the volume keys after the device has booted to enable screen reader support and go through the initial setup wizzard. (before this, we had to get sighted help to set up our phones which could have security implications)

Thank you thank you thank you for finding ways to allow for accessibility in a security-conscious way, so that people with disabilities can also preserve their freedom and data autonomy and are not forced to use the mainstream just because it provides access.

tango

That's superb news. They really are the best!

Raj

That Was Heart Touching!

shuteye

Raj I know right? I've been a happy GOs user since 2022, but today was the first time I was able to independently set up a device from scratch, ironically for a new GOs user in my family :) If I can make a suggestion though, adding a sentence or two in the web installer would go a long way towards helping folks enable the accessibility options they need during device setup. e.g.

"if you need the contents of your screen spoken, hold down the two volume keys on your device simultaneously until a vibration is felt and the device starts speaking. If you need other accessibility options like larger text, tap the "accessibility" button on the initial setup screen to get started configuring the options you need."

Johnnyloans

shuteye
adding a sentence or two in the web installer would go a long way towards helping folks enable the accessibility options they need during device setup. e.g.

"if you need the contents of your screen spoken, hold down the two volume keys on your device simultaneously until a vibration is felt and the device starts speaking. If you need other accessibility options like larger text, tap the "accessibility" button on the initial setup screen to get started configuring the options you need."

Great suggestion thanks!

@other8026

Probably add this tip to the command-line installer too?

de0u

shuteye Johnnyloans wizoatk

I have filed grapheneos.org issue #1573, including the suggested text. Interested parties can subscribe to the issue, and can use the reaction emoji, but in general should not post comments to the issue thread. My naive estimate would be that a change like this could be two weeks, or two months. Posting "Is there any update?", etc., would almost certainly be counterproductive.

wizoatk

Issues and pull requests against grapheneos.org is a more direct way of updating install instructions than pinging mods.

Issues: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/grapheneos.org/issues
existing code: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/grapheneos.org/tree/main/static/install