hello Sven-Hendrik Haase. i all reddy maintain TalkingArch.

concerning pr now i don't know how to implement boot option correctly. i try something in my spare time.

thank you for follow-up.

sincerely, Alexandr

22.03.2019 1:34, Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-releng пишет:

On Tue, Feb 5, 2019, 14:56 Alexandr Epaneshnikov via arch-releng <arch-releng@archlinux.org mailto:arch-releng@archlinux.org> wrote:

 hello. i am a blind arch user. currently to independently install
 arch i
 am using the TalkingArch <https://talkingarch.info> it is simple respin
 of archiso with speakup and brltty packages included.

 it wood be nice if official arch live iso comes with accessability
 support. especialy then Debian, fedora and even gentoo provides such
 option and it doesn't required much maintenance when implemented. if
 someone from arch Community interested to implement with my guidance of
 course.


 a possible approach :

 1 include alsa, brltty and espeakup packages.

 2 create a special boot option to boot archiso live session with speech
 enabled. brltty can be enabled in standard session because it not
 interfere with workload for sited people.

 3 make a11y documentation on arch wiki.


 if someone is interested. lets discuss.

 p.s. i hope that I chose the right list.

 Sincerely, Alexander

I don't believe this ever received any follow-up. Alexander, thank you for reaching out to improve Arch. Generally, the way it works for us that if any member of the community has interest in pursuing anything, they'll pick it up and just do it.

Since we don't have any members of the Arch dev team who'd be interested at this time (apparently) to help this effort along, I think your effort would be better spent over at the talkingarch project that you mentioned.

It's not like we don't care for making distro more accessible, it's just some people who are more knowledgeable than us in this topic have already put in some work. I suggest you go and give them a hand. Having an accessibility focused Arch spinoff will likely result in a better outcome for everyone than if we added something half-baked.

That said, if it's really just a easy as installing a bunch of packages and adding a boot option, then perhaps we could maintain it after all if it doesn't need constant fixing.

Are you able and willing to send in a pull request for this?

Sven