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The method of doing so would involve boot options: Either directly by adding a new option – perhaps inst.brltty – or indirectly by adding a kickstart command which would require using the inst.ks boot option. It is not clear yet if there needs to be some way to configure brltty. That is definitely the preferred option: The text mode is heavily simplified in some areas, and getting there through the “silent” boot menu is not easy.

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In the future, hopefully the Xorg driver for brltty could be added, so that GUI becomes somewhat accessible this way, too. Tell us!Īdmittedly, entering the text mode is near impossible for a sighted person, but treat this as only the first step. Once Anaconda starts, you should be able to read the screen using your device… or not.

Confirm with Enter or Ctrl+X (the former for BIOS, latter for UEFI) and wait for Anaconda to start.

Type space and then inst.text to start Anaconda in text mode.

Unfortunately the boot menu itself is not read by brltty, so you will have to guess the timing.

In the machine’s settings, choose to boot this time from the flash drive.

Start the computer with the flash drive inserted.

Prepare a flash drive or DVD to boot from.

Grab an “Everything boot” or “Server boot” image from the Fedora nightly compose finder page.

If you have a braille terminal, you can already try this out! There is also no means to configure the brltty session, so autodetection must work for your braille terminal device. Thus far, brltty is enabled only for the console, which requires Anaconda to be started in text mode. The latest Fedora 35 beta nightly builds now have the brltty screen reader on Server images. The environment is heavily reduced: no sound, no Gnome, no Orca. However, for the Server images the situation is different.

The installer does not have to do anything.

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Workstation media run a full Gnome session, with Orca available. On the Workstation images, accessibility already was at the same level as a finished system would offer. Good news: We have started working on accessibility of Anaconda! For start, the braille terminals now somewhat work in text mode. ALVA braille terminal, CC-BY-SA via Wikipedia.