Re: [orca-list] Accessible Distros

[Dave Hunt <ka1cey gmail com>]

I think the most reliable out-of-the-box accessibility I've yet had was 
with Trisquel.  5.5 (based on Ubuntu 11.04, but free of all things 
Unity) is out.  If you get the I18N DVD edition, you will have a talking 
live session, from which you can use the distro, and install, if you 
like, with speech (in any of about 50 languages) for your  whole 
session.  On booting your fresh install, you will be greeted with a 
talking login screen (they use gdm, even though it's Gnome 3).  If you 
run Trisquel, you may want to upgrade orca and libreoffice.  Trisquel's 
Mozilla browser (abrowser) is version 11.  If you want a gui mail 
client, install thunderbird, since Trisquel ships with Evolution (which 
does not work with orca anymore).  Go to http://trisquel.info and see 
for yourself.

If you wish an accessible session for Ubuntu 12.04, you can hit 
'ctrl+s', when you hear the bongos at login time.  You may have to do 
this twice (about 30 seconds apart), but Orca will start talking, and 
you will have the options of installing or trying Ubuntu.  I remind you, 
12.04 is not yet officially released.




Cheers,





Dave  Hunt




On 04/20/2012 03:11 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.