====== Base system accessibility wishlist ======

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This includes documenting wherever appropriate accessibility-related changes made to the base system. Documentation-only changes go into [[Accessibility/Wishlist/Doc]] instead.

===== In progress =====

==== VTY screen reader ====

  * Speech output support in vt(4): [[https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35754|D35754 available for feature testing]].
  * Daemon to speak vt(4) console: [[https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35776|D35776 available for feature testing]].
  * Provide a VTY screenreader (which one?) in the installer itself, as self-configurable as possible, and that can be started on the initial menu with a simple key or key combination.
  * Add a VTY screenreader (POLA says the same one) to the packages available from the installer so the installed OS can be speech-friendly from the first boot.
  * Document in the handbook.

==== Installer contrast ====

  * Check the installer text and background colors provide enough contrast (including as shades of grey) and or offer options to change them. See [[https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-accessibility/2023-April/000030.html|High Contrast Installer (email thread)]] and [[https://gitlab.com/alfix/bsddialog/-/issues/4|contrast testing report]].
  * Document in the handbook.

===== Strong candidates =====

===== Need more description or discussion =====

  * Screenreader support in the loader. (Earlier boot stages are probably unfeasible.)
  * Speech recognition instead of a keyboard (that's a very tough one, maybe untractable - accents, spelling variants, ESL speakers, and I'm probably missing some).
  * Other color schemes than white-on-blue (installer) or white-on-black (out-of-the-box default for VTYs), both configurable from the installer including for the installed OS.

===== Others =====

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