Re: [orca-list] Mandriva Linux 2009-1

[Helios <heliooos gmail com>]

Hi Sergei,
this is very positive information. I tried to get Orca working in
Opensuse (11.1) and also in Pclinuxos 2009 Gnome (which has some
similarities with Mandriva) but never successfully solved problem with
pulseaudio. You said that most administrative applications are
accessible - the Mandriva Control Center too? And what about Orca
speed? I noticed some delay when running Vinux 1.4 and also Nautilus
is sometimes little bit slow (normal Celeron laptop with 1GB ram). On
which hardware did you try Mandriva?

thanks

Helios

> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:37:07 +0400
> From: "Sergei V. Fleytin" <fleytin yandex ru>
> Subject: [orca-list] Mandriva Linux 2009-1
> To: orca-list gnome org
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> Hello, all!
>
> I just would like to tell You, that I installed a couple of days ago the
> latest release of the Mandriva Linux operating system. Unfortunately, I
> don't know of any way to install this distribution eyesfree,but after
> installing I found the distsro to be a pleasant surprise from
> accessibility point of view. I slected gnome profile during the install
> and after logging in to newly installed desktop I started orca the usual
> way and passed the initial configuration dialog without any problem.
> After logging out and in again, Orca started speaking and I can confirm
> the following:
> 1. All major applications are accessible$
> 2. most administrative aplication are accessible (no need to play
> with .orbitrc and sudoeers files. Though I should admit that there are
> certain accessibility issues with some of the admin apps;
> 3. pulseaudio does not conflicts with Orca's speech system at all and,
> if You wish, You can turn it off to get slight improvement in system
> responsiveness. But after that no system sound are played.
>
> The system in general is very stable and all applications I use work as
> expected.
>
> So, I think that Mandriva distribution deserves attention from the blind
> users as one of the possible desktop solutions.
>
> WBR,
>
> Sergei Fleytin.