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

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

It is not that Mint developers are unaware about this, but seems 
accessibility has taken a backseet there for ever.
On Saturday 16 August 2014 11:02 AM, B. Henry wrote:
> 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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