Re: [orca-list] Which versions of Mint?

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

None,
Who told you that mint was accessible?
It has never been, and there's no work to make it so.
I did not think orca even came on it by default. 
Perhaps configured with mate, the latest so you get mate 1.8, and of course with all orca dependencies and 
acessibility 
stack components installed it will mostly work, but I've not heard of anyone doing this. 
Just put mate on debian or Ubuntu and you'll have as good as the best you could hope for from mint unless 
there's some 
secret floating around.
Just trying one distro after another with out investagation first will not get you a good accessibility 
experience.
There are no hidden gyms out there that no screenreader-using blind folk know about. 
There are out of the box accessible distros that may be improved with some careful and thoughtful 
configuration, and other 
distros that need a lot of configuration to get an accessible GUI, and others that don't even have a way to 
enable an 
accessible CLI with out major work done with no speech feedback.
Good luck,but you'll advance much faster I think if you spent half of the time you spend trying 
distro/releases that are 
either no 
longer supported and do not support any new accessibility software, and other distros or releases that are 
just not 
accessible on learning how to effectively use one of the good options we have. 
Otherwise, learn how to code at a high enough level that inaccessible distros will want your contributions 
and you can 
have an influance toward making them screenreader friendly.
Regards,
--
B.H.


On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 12:03:30AM -0500, Glenn wrote:
> Hi All,
> I downloaded Linux Mint 17 Mate 32-bit and it boots to a desktop, but seems 
> to have no functionality, no audio either.
> I have downloaded it multiple times, from different mirrors and on two 
> different computers, and I have burned it to USB using three different 
> utilities.
>
> Can anyone tell me which is the most accessible version of Mint?
> I use Orca.
> Glenn 
>
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