I'm attempting to install ubuntu server 20.04 in VirtualBox on my Windows 10 host system. I managed to configure VirtualBox such that the virtual machine boots using the .iso file provided on the official website.
Things start getting tricky after the boot. Until that point, I can use my screen reader on Windows (JaWS 2021) to configure VirtualBox. As soon as the virtual machine boots, however, JAWS is incapable to report its screen back to me and I am therefore incapable of completing the installation on my own.
There's a a screen reader on Ubuntu too, but its presence only gets reported for graphical desktops like GNOME. Nonetheless, according to the accessibility page of the Ubuntu wiki, Orca should be available during OS installation, too - after a "bongo sound".
The problem is that I never hear that bongo sound during the server installation; maybe I haven't reached that point yet, or maybe this is for Ubuntu desktop, not server - at any rate, ALT + SUPEr + S has no effect for me whatsoever.
The Ubuntu server installation sounds accessible enoug, in theory - all actions are keyboard-based, the mouse doesn't work. But without a screen reader to report what I'm focusing, which values I'm selecting, the keyboard accessibility is of little use to me.
Does anyone know how/if I could activate Orca during Ubuntu server 20.04 installation? Or do I have to accept that I'm dependent on sighted people until I can use SSH to communicate with the server?
