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Dear developers of Orca,
I would like to please You with
highest respect to Your time and work, if You could try to find The way to
perform accessible installation of Opensuse 11.0 with Orca. I have Opensuse
version 11.0 desktop CD with Gnome on my mind. I Am not professional like a
developers of Orca or so clever like A core developers of Linux distributions.
But eventhough I Am not so experienced developer with many knowledge, I tried to
do somethink to enable visually impaired to install Opensuse 11.0 from A live CD
to A hard drive. My approach is not from my own head, somebody published this
approach previously how to install Orca-UbuntuFeisty - GNOME
Live! . So I only had to extract necessary information from A desktop icon,
which is starting Opensuse installation. But eventhough I have done this, it was
not possible to install Opensuse by launching The installation program from
Gnome terminal Window. Orca could not get necessary events, so I was not able to
choose language, I had no needed feetback from Orca to use
installation program successfully.
I could only read some lines by using arrow keys,
but no focus events was supported by pressing TAB.
Installation
program for UbuntuFeisty has probably specially programmed
for using it from Gnome Terminal Window, or Orca code was specially adapted for
using ubyquity program.
I started to think about next approach. But it is
probably inpossible because of internal limitations when running Opensuse Live
CD and Gnome. I thought, if user could normally boot to a Gnome desktop and
after finishing loading of all modules, user could press CTRL+ALT+Backspace
twice and next, user could logon as A root. But: will Opensuse allow to logon as
A root user and will be possible to start Gnome? After user would logon as a
root, user could start Orca and press Enter, user could answer Orca
configuration questions, user had to logout and logon again with root user name
and Then, user could start Orca again and could start installation program for
Opensuse by using standard desktop icon. Because Orca would be started as A root
user and installation program could also run as a root user.
If this approach is also inpossible, please is
there any chance to execute installation of Opensuse like a root user and Orca
also like A root user when booting from A live CD? If Orca included with version
of Gnome would have difficulty with accessing dialogs of installation programs,
(I think that this would not to happen), because if I understood everythink
right, The Orca is not able to provide its services for applications, which are
executed like a root user and if Orca is executed from a non root level, for
Example, like Ubuntu user in The Ubuntu Linux distribution, or like A Linux user
name in The opensuse.
Please do not write Me similar
answers like:
Why You are using Opensuse, when Ubuntu Linux is
specially adapted for visually impaired users. I want to install Opensuse
distribution, because The reliability of interaction between Orca and Festival
synthesizer is much more better than interaction between Espeak and Orca in The
Ubuntu distribution. In The Opensuse, when I press CTRL key, The Festival stop
speaking immediately, sometimes I think, that I Am using Jaws Screen Reader for
Windows with The most expensive commercial text to speech engine. Orca is
working so reliably and stably with Festival synthesizer.
If there is really no chance to perform accessible
Opensuse installation while booting from A desktop CD with Gnome, because core
developers of Opensuse distribution would have to make complex changes to The
whole package, I will respect it with big sad inside my soul. I Am writing this
little discussion E-mail to please core developers of Orca or others advanced
Linux user for their time, so they could write some E-mail to this conference
about this topic. I really done maximum for finding reliable procedure for
installing Opensuse with Orca, unfortunately, I Am totally blind and
experimenting with logon and logout is not simple task for me, because there
is no Screen Reader which is not depend on The accessibility architecture.
I do not know, if even yasr could help me. I think, that no.
Here is The command line for launching Opensuse
installation program.
yast2 live-installer
Thank You very much for Your analysis of my E-mail.
I believe, that somebody will try to find The solution.
The kindness regards.
Janusz Chmiel
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