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§Thanks to all answers.
I downloaded ubuntu 12.4 live cd, and it really
works quite out of the box...
I must say I never tried Unity before so I am a bit
lost in the interface and still have to learn where to find things.... Gnome was
a bit more intuitive for me, but I suppose I will figure out unity
too...
thanks for the help!
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 11:12
AM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] what distro for
orca?
Hi Andrea,
Asking about which distribution of Linux
is best is kind of like asking what flavor of ice cream is the best. You are
likely to get a number of answers. However, I personally do think Ubuntu 12.04
is the best distribution currently for the following reasons.
1. The
live CD install is fully accessible with Orca, and the Wubi install is handy
for people who don't want to repartition their Windows drives just to try the
OS out.
2. Ubuntu 12.04 has been excellent for keeping up with the
latest changes in atspi2 and Orca. I've noticed that thanks to Luke updates
seem to appear in the proposed repository with in a few days of official
release so its a good way to keep up with bleeding edge accessibility
updates.
3. Ubuntu 12.04 comes with Unity 2D which is probably the most
accessible graphical environment currently, but gnome-shell 3.4.1 is also
available from the software center meaning you can choose which you
want.
4. Ubuntu 12.04 coms with qt-atspi out of the box which means if
there are Qt apps you wish to test and use you'll find Ubuntu 12 is on top of
Qt accessibility where some other other distributions haven't quite gotten
around to including Qt accessibility yet, and if you want it you'll have to
compile the Qt at-spi and perhaps update Qt itself from source just to get a
reasonably accessible version of Qt based apps.
5. Finally, Ubuntu 12
comes with Orca and the Speakup screen reader is also included for those who
want to use the shell environment.
Cheers!
On 6/1/2012 4:10 PM,
Andrea Roveretto wrote:
Hello to all!
what would be the best choice for a pretty
inexpert linux user to start with orca now?
Is ubuntu still the best choice?
thanks
Andrea
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The
FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
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