Re: [orca-list] Comments regarding Ubuntu

[Daniel Dalton <d dalton iinet net au>]

On Wed, 28 May 2008, Chris Hallsworth wrote:

> Hi all, well I took Ubuntu for a very good test drive, and, although I like
> it, I have a couple of comments and possibly some urgent help.
> 1. I can't believe that a blind person can't perform administrative tasks as

They can, just follow
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/SysAdmin

And ask if you don't understand something.
Also, make sure you read the sudo part and follow the instructions for 
sudo...

> all, or should that be the other way round. It just asks me to select a
> desired voice, gives me the language and appropriate accent, the words
> "select choice", and that's it. Again can this be fixed at all? I can run
> Orca using the standard Gui fine.

That isn't correct...

> Terminal a lot, then I think the only way is to do lots of reading and maybe
> attempt to use my BrailleNote mPower as a bluetooth display so I can "feel"

Well, ok, but I use usb to serial, since bt is very hard to setup and usb 
to serial I guess is more stable...
If your interested I can get a supported model number for you.
Also, you could use braille in a text-console, amd you could also use 
speech in gnome-terminal.

So let me know if you are interested in this usb to serial since they are 
hard to find and you could then perhaps buy one off ebay.

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Daniel Dalton

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