Today, while searching for a magic linux 'rune' I found this moan by someone, which dates back to 2012. It's fixed now, very nicely, but it shows how long the internet and society can take to push through change for people with disabilities.
Q: I struggle to type and when I type in a long password (in terminal) I need to see some feedback to know I pressed a key, if even not the right one.
A: open a terminal and type:
sudo visudofind the line that reads
Defaults env_resetor similar, and add
Defaults env_reset,pwfeedback press CTRL+O to save, and then exit.
BUT
I'm going to add to this rant from a millennia ago though, read the rant first : https://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/passwordinterminal
The core upshoot is that it took a few years, and when you look on stack-overflow most posters were not searching for the aforementioned tip. So either computer users were not disabled, or they were afraid to ask. I suspect the latter. Today we have an almost floodgates version of problems with computer accessibility with all kinds of web and computer usability standards. So although the open source community did come around, they took their sweet time.
Another community that has taken their sweet time are computer gamer developers. Sure there's not a lot of money int it right now, but at some point all these gamers we have today will be getting older and will be sitting on cash they cannot spend playing games that they cannot really enjoy. On Steam at least there is now a group called Visually Impaired Players (VIG), go check them out. https://steamcommunity.com/groups/VisuallyImpairedPlayers
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