Braille

Starting from version 0.9.1-4, debian's qemu has support for virtual braille device. That means that you can very easily (i.e. without any hardware) test the debian installer support for braille device by just installing brltty and brltty-x11, running:

and checking that debinst properly remains in text mode and that the brltty window shows what happens in the dialogs.

To test the serial device support, replace

with

and append

to the kernel command line.

Speech

Speech support is not yet integrated, pending speakup upload which will provide speakup-source and speakup-udeb. Once it is in, you will be able to run

and append

to the kernel command line. You will then get on stdio what would be spoken.