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Welcome to the librem5-accessibility wiki!

This wiki documents various aspects of setting up and using a Librem 5 smartphone as a visually impaired user. See the Purism website and the Librem 5 community wiki for general information.

Who is this wiki for?

This wiki is for anybody who is interested in setting up accessibility software on the Librem 5 smartphone. We assume that the reader is very familiar with the GNU/Linux operating system and is experienced enough to do advanced system configuration from the shell.

Before starting to configure the phone, read Purism's documentation and the community wiki (linked above) carefully. Information presented there will not be intentionally repeated here.

NOTE! All instructions in this wiki assume that you are running a GNU/Linux system on the computer from which you want to configure the Librem 5 phone. If this is not the case, you will need to adapt accordingly.

Conventions

The following conventions are used throughout this wiki:

If a command is to be executed on the computer, from which the Librem 5 is configured from, it is marked as:

pc$ echo "Hello, World"

if the command echo "Hello, World"is to be executed as a normal user, and

pc# nmap example.com

if the command nmap example.comis to be executed as the root user on this system.

Likewise, the prefix for commands executed on the Librem 5 is either librem$ (for unprivileged execution) and librem5# (for commands that are to be executed with superuser privileges).

Getting started

See the Initial setup page for the first steps on how to get the Librem 5 up and running.

Using the phone

Librem 5's graphical interface is only accessible for people with good enough vision. Currently the only terminal interfaces that are available are the command line tools shipped with PureOS. Librem 5 is not yet ready to be used as a daily mobile phone for phone calls and messaging. It already makes a very good pocket-size computer though.

To go beyond the basics, take a look at other pages on this wiki.