Re: [orca-list] Do we need "accessible" linux distributions anymore? was Re: Go to upper left and lower right corner in orca.

[Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com>]

According to Alex Midence:
# Trouble is, they are all essentially Debian based.  If you want to try
# other stuff like Red Hat clones (Fedora, Centos, ETC.), you’re out of
# luck without sighted assistance.  Same thing for Suse and Slackware.

Not entirely true, at least for openSUSE. I did an install of the GNOME 
64-bit CD in a virtual machine, and I didn't require any eyeball 
dependencies. I can't say the same for Fedora or Slackware, as I haven't 
tried them recently, but I know that I can use and install openSUSE. 
It's true that it's not as easy as Ubuntu, which plays a bongo sound, I 
press control-s, and it starts talking, or Trisquel, which just starts 
talking, but it is a bit unfair to say that no non-Debian-based distros 
can be installed or tested without installing additional eyeball 
dependencies. In order to get openSUSE talking, I booted the CD, waited 
about a minute and a half just to be sure the desktop was up, pressed 
alt-f2 and entered "orca" without the quotes. From there, I found 
openSUSE to be nothing short of amazing to work with, and I highly 
recommend it, especially to newer users who don't want a cluttered 
interface, and don't want to learn a lot of command line geeky stuff. I 
hear Fedora is as good, but it does still require some configuration 
after the initial installation, which sadly doesn't speak. I do 
understand, however, that it is a goal of GNOME to have a keystroke that 
will always activate Orca, as long as it gets installed into the distro, 
which is fortunately the case for most of the well-recognized names, so 
the number of mainstream distros we are able to use without hacking 
around or eyeballs is going to increase greatly, hopefully within the 
next 2 to 3 GNOME versions.
~Kyle
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