Re: [orca-list] Accessible Distros

[Robert Cole <rkcole72984 gmail com>]

Hello, Nimer.

While I do not have an answer for all of your questions, I am currently 
running a Fedora 16 system on my home desktop computer. I have a very 
small amount of vision, and I would have to say that the installer is 
not completely accessible with Orca at this time...mainly the FirstBoot 
process which runs after the initial system restart following the 
installation from a live environment. I actually had to use the camera 
on my cell phone to complete the FirstBoot process. I had to zoom in as 
far as I could on the screen with my camera so that I could read through 
the steps in this procedure. It was quite a neck ache to say the least. 
This is not the fault of Orca, however. I really think that Fedora is a 
great system; it runs very well on my computer system, but I do not 
think that one who is completely blind could install it without sighted 
assistance.

There is a Speakup modified version of Fedora [1], but it is only at 
version 13 whereas Fedora itself is approaching version 17.

I hope that, someday in the near future, one could be able to install 
Fedora completely using Orca. I have tried to research this topic 
online, but I have found very little information. I know that Michael 
Whapples, who is also a member of this mailing list, tried to find out 
some information about this as well as I ran into some of his posts on 
the Fedora mailing lists.

I apologize for not being much of a help to you.

Take care.

[1] http://www.speakupmodified.org/

On 04/20/2012 12:11 PM, Nimer M. Jaber, IC³ wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Has anyone tried accessing either Fedora (latest version) or OpenSuse
> 12.1? If so, are they accessible out of the box? How about the
> installer?
>
> Secondly, in Ubuntu 12.04, what is the process for logging into and
> activating speech after an install with speech? When I boot up I get
> no sound or speech even though I had speech during an accessible
> install.
>
> Thanks.