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After screen reader shortcut is read, begin cycling audio devices

Open danirabbit opened this issue 6 months ago • 1 comments

Problem

We can get into a bit of a chicken and egg problem where blind folks can't set the correct audio device without the screen reader, but also can't use the screen reader without having the correct audio device set.

Proposal

After the screen reader shortcut is announced, we should begin automatically cycling available audio devices and reading the announcement again on each device

Prior Art (Optional)

@zersiax mentioned this feature in their recent stream. I can't remember if there was an example of an installer that does this already

danirabbit avatar Jul 07 '25 17:07 danirabbit

The Debian installer does this, I'll be showing it off next stream. From what i understand, what they do is fire a little announcement sequentially over each detected audiodevice, with a little "press enter if you can hear this" bit, which then sets that device as the selecteed/default sound device.

zersiax avatar Jul 08 '25 17:07 zersiax