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Might be a good move

Might be a good move

Posted Jun 26, 2025 14:24 UTC (Thu) by linuxrocks123 (guest, #34648)
In reply to: Might be a good move by mjg59
Parent article: GNOME deepens systemd dependencies

> There's a whole bunch of accessibility requirements that can never be satisfied by a text console, and that's just fine.

Text console is one of the most inherently accessible interfaces for the blind because it is extremely easy to do text-to-speech with. I recently read a blog post by a blind Linux user in which he lamented that he's recently had to switch back to the console since GUI accessibility is degrading as GTK4 was adopted more, since GTK4 was released with some bad accessibility bugs. Unfortunately, I can't find it now. I think it was on BlueSky.

> How does your getty login manage user choice of whether to use a password, fingerprint, or facial recognition?

First thought that came to the top of my head was to put linuxrocks123-pass, linuxrocks123-finger, or linuxrocks123-facial in the the username field. You could put those instructions in /etc/issue for user friendliness, right below your standard enterprise all-caps threat that I'm sure is already there. (You know what I mean, that "ATTENTION: IF YOU DO SOMETHING WE DON'T LIKE WE WILL MAKE SURE YOUR LIFE BECOMES A LIVING A HELL" thing.)


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