Re: [orca-list] Accessible Distros

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

I've got to chime in here. I know nothing about accessibility in any 
distros other than ubuntu, vinux and trisquel, But this brings me to my 
question. I've been playing around with xfce in trisquel and my precise 
install, and I've managed to get it started. I'm using latest orca, 
v3.4.1 on precise, and v3.2.1 on trisqel. When xfce starts, orca does 
start, but  will not speak anything other than, welcome to orca, and 
starting orca preferences. I have a little sight, so can see the prefs 
window open, and can navigate the desktop icons in xfce but nothing is 
spoken. When orca first starts up, when the orca splash disappears 
there's a dialogue box that pops up, probably an error of some sort but 
my sight isn't good enough to read this. Googling around tells me that I 
need to enable accessibility, but I'm not sure how to do this without 
speech, and anyway I'm not sure if orca will work with xfce if the 
accessibility keys work the same way. As  a last resort, I tried running 
orca -t. This was an ightmare lol. I first quit orca with orca -q as  
the keyboard shortcut didn't seem to work. I start orca's terminal setup 
and get, welcome to orca setup. select speech ... etc etc. then infinite 
speaking of, please enter a valid number, please... I haven't pressed a 
key and am waiting for speech to stop so I can continue. I did manage to 
get orca to stop by switching to vt1 without speech, logging in and 
killing espeak.  Anyone have any ideas? I'd like to at least play around 
with xfce, just to see how usable it is froma blind person's 
perspective, as unity is... hard to get used to.
Thanks
Kendell clark
  On 04/21/2012 10:27 PM, Jason White wrote:
> mike<mmstopka28 gmail com>  wrote:
> > Has their ben any talk about getting an accessible install with centos?
> No, but any changes that go into Fedora should eventually migrate into Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux, and therefore into derivatives such as Centos. Expect it to
> take a long time though - "enterprise" distributions move slowly, but you get
> greater reliability.
>
> It's basically a choice between having more up to date software, with a
> greater chance of discovering bugs, or software that has been tested for
> longer and which is therefore older, but probably more reliable. Compare RHEL
> and Fedora, or Debian Testing vs. debian Stable, etc.
>
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