Re: [orca-list] how accessible is linux mint?

[Simon Eigeldinger <simon eigeldinger vol at>]

hi robert,

might try tomorrow. thanks for the infos.

greetings,
simon


Am 24.05.2012 21:23, schrieb Robert Cole:
> Back when I was using Linux Mint 12 (the CD edition) Orca was not
> installed, nor were accessibility cmponents. This may differ on the DVD
> edition, but I am not sure on this. Linux Mint has two desktops
> available out-of-the-box: Cinnamon and MATE. I have not tried either of
> these with Orca yet, so I do not really know how accessible they are.
> Cinnamon, like Unity, has GNOME 3 technologies under the hood, so I
> would *think* that it *should* be accessible with Orca, but that is just
> my inexperienced opinion.
>
> Needless to say, I was able to install Orca into a live USB Linux Mint
> 12 system by issuing:
>
> sudo apt-get install gnome-orca
>
> However, I was unable to successfully install the system using Orca.
>
> I hope that this information is helpful. I only regret the fact that I
> did not have that good of an experience with accessibility under Linux
> Mint 12. Maybe this has changed in the latest Linux Mint 13 "Maya"
> release. I will have to take a look at it.
>
> Kind regards.
>
> Take care.
>
> On 05/24/2012 09:07 AM, Alex Midence wrote:
> > I don't think that a distro's not letting you install it without
> > sighted assistance makes it inaccessible. It's probably quite
> > accessible once you have it in place. Look at Fedora. Once you have
> > it all installed, you can use it just fine with all the a11y stuff. I
> > think there are various levels of accessibility.
> >
> > Alex M
> >
> > On 5/24/12, Simon Eigeldinger<simon eigeldinger vol at> wrote:
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > then it seems not that accessible as they say on the website. thought
> > > they wrote something about that they are a accessible distro.
> > > or maybe i am reading something wrong there.
> > >
> > > greetings,
> > > simon
> > >
> > >
> > > Am 24.05.2012 15:47, schrieb Alex Midence:
> > > > I think you have to install Ubuntu propper and then enable Mint's
> > > > ppa's in order to accessibly install Mint. I seem to remember a
> > > > posting on this that said that.
> > > >
> > > > Alex M
> > > >
> > > > On 5/24/12, simon eigeldinger vol at<simon eigeldinger vol at> wrote:
> > > > > hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > does someone know how accessible linux mint is?
> > > > > can it be installed by a blind person and how does that work?
> > > > >
> > > > > greetings,
> > > > > Simon
> > > > >
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> > The manual is at
> > http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
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> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> The manual is at
> http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp

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