The Debian installer supports several front-ends for asking questions, with varying convenience for accessibility: notably, text uses plain text while newt uses text-based dialog boxes. The choice can be made at the boot prompt, see the documentation for DEBIAN_FRONTEND in Sección 5.3.2, “Parámetros del instalador de Debian”.

Los dispositivos braille USB se deberían detectar automáticamente. Se escogerá automáticamente una versión en texto del instalador, y se instalará automáticamente la funcionalidad para usar braille en el sistema a instalar. Sólo tiene que presionar Enter en el menú de arranque. Una vez que arranca brltty, puede elegir una tabla braille usando el menú de preferencias. La documentación de los atajos de teclado para los dispositivos braille se encuentra en el sitio web de brltty.

Serial braille displays cannot safely be automatically detected (since that may damage some of them). You thus need to append the brltty=driver,port boot parameter to tell brltty which driver and port it should use. driver should be replaced by the two-letter driver code for your terminal (see the BRLTTY manual). port should be replaced by the name of the serial port the display is connected to, ttyS0 is the default, ttyUSB0 can be typically used when using a serial-to-USB converter. A third parameter can be provided, to choose the name of the braille table to be used (see the BRLTTY manual); the English table is the default. Note that the table can be changed later by entering the preference menu. A fourth parameter can be provided to pass parameters to the braille driver, such as protocol=foo which is needed for some rare models. Documentation on key bindings for braille devices is available on the brltty website.

Algunos dispositivos de accesibilidad se presentan como tarjetas que se insertan dentro de la máquina y que leen el texto directamente de la memoria de vídeo. Para hacer uso de ellas se debe deshabilitar el uso de «framebuffer» con el parámetro de arranque fb=false. Sin embargo, esto reduce el número de idiomas disponibles.

For users with low vision, the installer can use a high-contrast color theme that makes it more readable. To enable it, append the theme=dark boot parameter.

For users with low vision, the graphical installer has a very basic zoom support: the Control++ and Control+- shortcuts increase and decrease the font size.

Expert, Rescue, and Automated installation choices are also available with accessibility support. To access them, one has to first enter the “Advanced options” submenu from the boot menu by typing a. When using a BIOS system (the boot menu will have beeped only once), this has to be followed by Enter. Then, to enable speech synthesis, s can optionally be pressed (followed again by Enter when using a BIOS system). From there, various shortcuts can be used: x for expert installation, r for rescue mode, or a for automated installation. When using a BIOS system, they must be followed by Enter.

The automated install choice allows to install Debian completely automatically by using preseeding, whose source can be entered after accessibility features get started. Preseeding itself is documented in Apéndice B, Instalar automáticamente utilizando preconfiguración.

La documentación sobre accesibilidad del sistema instalado está disponible en la página wiki de accesibilidad de Debian.