Re: [orca-list] Accessible Distros

[Krishnakant mane <krmane gmail com>]

Unity accessibility has greatly improved off late and progress is very impressive.
Except some little titbits like the rename file/folder enter not reading the text and passwords getting 
spoken, overall the accessibility with unity is pritty satisfactory.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 06:25:44PM -0400, Dave Hunt wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> Cheers,
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> Dave  Hunt
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> 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.
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