tdewey-rpi
commented
6 months ago Hi @nickgaw,
Thanks for the report. I aim for Raspberry Pi Imager to be as friction-free for as large a population as possible, and it sounds like we've fallen short here.
Focus hopping was not a deliberate omission - instead, it was one I think we expected our toolkit (qt) to provide out of the box.
Unfortunately we don't have a mechanism to pre-provision packages in Raspberry Pi Imager today - so including Orcas would have to be done in the OS that was downloaded. My understanding is that Raspberry Pi OS provides a mechanism to do this (per your description), however I will consider adding the option to insert packages into an OS. Note that such a mechanism will have to be strictly controlled, due to the varying operating assumptions of the various OSes offered by Imager. As such, the mechanism will have to be opted in by the various OS providers - which will be straightforward for Raspberry Pi OS, but possibly a longer-term item for some of the more exotic distributions.
With your permission, I will fracture and rewrite this issue such that:
- This issue specifically becomes about focus hopping and screen reading; and
- A new Feature Request is created to cover injecting packages into a chosen OS
Please reply with a confirmation you're happy for me to restructure the issue accordingly.
nickgaw
What happened?
A bug happened!I myself am totally blind and am trying to use rpi-imager to image a new SD card. When I open up rpi-imager and try to tab threw the options I am unable to do so as tab does nothing. Making the program fully accessible under windows and the mac both which have built in accessibility tools included would greatly help a lot. http://www.microsoft.com/enable and http://www.apple.com/accessibility have great accessibility information and with orca in linux the gnome project has lots of information on their web site. Windows has narrator in it and the mac has the voice over screen reader in it which lets blind users use the mac with just a keyboard. Fighting with a mouse that I do not normally use is not the best way to use an application and the raspberry pi image release notes do talk about a way to install orca by pressing control and alt and space but this could easily be done in the imager so that on first boot accessibility is turned on automatically. As a totally blind student who is studying programming I feel that as the raspberry pi foundation says they care about accessibility but then their tools are almost unusable with the keyboard I feel this is not the best practice and really needs to be looked into as soon as possible.
Version
1.8.5 (Default)
What host operating system were you using?
Windows
Host OS Version
11
Selected OS
the latest raspberry pi operating system
Which Raspberry Pi Device are you using?
Raspberry Pi 5
What kind of storage device are you using?
microSD Card in an internal reader
OS Customisation
Relevant log output
No response