Opened 5 years ago
#19322 new defect
Unable to use text instalation of linux operating system with accessibility turned on in virtual box.
| Reported by: | Vsevolod Popov | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | guest control | Version: | VirtualBox 6.1.2 |
| Keywords: | installing debian with accessibility features turned on. | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | Windows |
Description
When using the text installation of debian with accessibility features turned on it is impossible to use keyboard to perform any actions in a virtual machine after turning the speech on in the guest operating system. To reproduce these steps do the following steps: Run a debian64 bit full dvd installation iOs file in a virtual machine. You can find this file here: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-10.3.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso When you run a virtual machine, press the following keys: "s" and then press enter. You will turn on the speech support and the text installer. Then you will here speech synthesiser saying "Select a language". Try to press any keys on a keyboard, for example: numpad 7 and 9, 4 and 6, arrows up and down, any keys. You will notice that the virtual machine doesn't respond and you don't hear anything. That makes fully impossible to install debian for blind users to a virtual box. Blind people can only use text installer of debian with the speech support and now it is impossible to do in a virtual box. Please fix that issue! Thank you!

