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# Install Arch Linux with accessibility options

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The official Arch Linux installation medium supports various Accessibility features:

- speech is provided by the espeakup package
- braille terminal support is handled by the brltty package

This document describes how to install Arch Linux using these features.

Note: This page describes only steps which are different from the Installation guide.

## Pre-installation

### Boot the live environment

Note: The bootloaders on the installation medium have a timeout of 15 seconds before they start the default menu item.

When the installation medium starts booting, press `Down` followed by `Enter` to boot with speech enabled.

USB braille displays should be detected automatically via udev.

### Multiple sound cards

If your computer has several sound cards, you will hear the following message: Please select your sound card for speech output.

When you hear a beep on the output that you would like to use, press `Enter` to select the card.

### Change speech language

To change the espeak-ng language/voice used by `espeakup.service`, edit the unit so that the language code is appended to `default_voice=` in the `Environment=` directive.

You can also change the espeak-ng voice variant by appending `+variant` to the language code. See espeakup(8) and espeak-ng(1) for more information.

## Installation

### Install essential packages

For speech support in the installed system, you need espeakup and alsa-utils. If you use a braille display, install the brltty package.

Append the required packages to the pacstrap(8) call when installing:

    # pacstrap -K /mnt base linux linux-firmware espeakup alsa-utils

## Configure the system

### Sound card

If #Multiple sound cards were detected, copy the `/etc/asound.conf` file, which has been generated in the installation medium:

    # cp /etc/asound.conf /mnt/etc/

### Enable the services

To have speech support after booting into the installed system you need to enable `espeakup.service`. See also #Change speech language.

## Reboot

After booting into the newly installed system it should start speaking automatically.

## Troubleshooting

See Accessibility#Troubleshooting.

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- Installation process
- Accessibility