[orca-list] FW: What distribution?

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Meant to make this available to the whole list in case someone found it
handy.

Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Midence [mailto:alex midence gmail com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 4:57 PM
To: 'D. A. H.'
Subject: RE: [orca-list] What distribution?

I tried the live CD just now and found it quite accessible at a very cursory
level.  All I did was pop it in, wait about 2 minutes to be sure it was
ready and then hit alt+f2 and typed Orca.  Orca began talking and I found
myself in a dialog asking if I wanted to try install Fedora or try it out.
I pressed "try it out" and was able to navigate the Gnome  Shell as normal
and launch applications and so forth.  As a Gnome 3.4 user, I have to say I
really liked the Message area you get in 3.8.  I also really like the way
the applications area can either show frequent or all applications used.  It
reminded me of Unity but with a cleaner interface.  There was no speech in
the console (big surprise) but x was quite accessible.  

I guess the big hairy beastie is the installation application.  I'll have to
mess with that and see what impressions I get.  Concensus appears to be
don't use tab, use flat review and expect odd behavior.  I think I'll make a
virtual machine of it and play around with it some as time permits.  Looking
forward to learning how a Redhat derivative works as I've only messed with
Debian and Ubuntu-derived systems up till now.  

Thanks, Dave.

Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: D. A. H. [mailto:dhunt freedommail co]
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 8:59 AM
To: Alex Midence
Subject: Re: [orca-list] What distribution?

When you boot up Fedora 19, it goes directly to the GNOME session.  You can
do the usual 'alt+f2', wait about 10 seconds, and type 'orca' to get it
talking.  The installer is a bit funky.  Often, when using 'tab' to
navigate, orca reports the wrong thing, e. g. the state of a checkbox or
switch.  I had to use a lot of flat review and clicking to make things
happen.  I found the disk partitioning section especially confusing. 
Once I finally got the disk set up and did the rest of the install, I
rebooted.  After logging into my new account, I was in some new user welcome
screen, with loud, obnoxious music.  I managed to start orca, though I
barely heard the speech.  I had to bang the escape key a bunch of times to
get to the shell.