Re: [orca-list] please help a newby make an install of ubuntu 12.10 more accessible

[Julien Claassen <julien mail upb de>]

Hello Rusty!
  I'm not sure about pre-written instructions. But at heart Ubuntu is a sort 
of Debian, so you will have aptitude/apt-get. They are the package manager and 
you can use them from the console. I think a command to upgrade your system 
is:
aptitude dist-upgrade
  As to a more accessible system, that depends on what you have installed at 
the moment. There is orca, brltty, espeak. I think GNOME has all its 
accessibility as part of the normal libraries.
  But you could also try to download a Sonar image. I remember, you told me 
about problems with getting it to boot from USB stick and there's no DVD 
drive. Right?
  If your braille display is not supported, you could also install espeakup. 
It's a screenreader for the commandline also using espeak. It works fine on my 
Arch Linux. Never tried it on a normal Debian sstem though.
  Kind regards
        Julien

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