Re: [orca-list] announcing another accessible distro, ubuntu-mate

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

Paldo, never tried it, but there was a lot of buzz here when it came out with a release a few months back.
GRML, not a normal desktop distro, but  as long as you get the full sized images it's been accessible for 
years.
And if we go there, some gentoo images have speakup that can be turned on with a boottime option. 
Fedora installers seem to be trouble for a lot of folks, but others are certainly using it. 
Knopix's speech-enabled spin adriaine also, one of the original distros to be speacilally tweakked for 
screenreader users. I've not tried it in a couple 
years, so can't speak to any improvements or regressions, but it used to update regularly so I suspect it can 
support new orca versions if that has 
continued.
How about open-suse these days?
All in all, there are certainly options even if the unknowns are not up to snuff this year.
 
  

On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 05:25:14PM -0500, kendell clark wrote:
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> hi all
> I'm pleased to announce another distribution available to blind
> people, ubuntu-mate. I'm not a dev for it, so I'll try to be short.
> It's basically ubuntu 14.10 with mate, and lightdm. It's just like
> using vinux. You hear thr drumbs, you press windows+alt+s to turn on
> the screen reader. I myself had to launch orca manually, but it worked
> out of the box. THe desktop icons read, the menus, all apps, etc. I'd
> still recommend upgrading to a later version of orca for teh firefox
> fixes and the remapping of nautilus to marco so that the alt tab
> switcher reads, but other than that it's accessible. Mate itself still
> has some minor issues to be worked out, such as qt apps sometimes
> freezing the mate panel, and qt applets being completely silent with
> orca. If the panel ever freezes, open the run dialog with alt+f2 and
> type mate-panel --replace. That'll fix it. The installer is
> accessible, and it installs and boots fine. It does one thing I've
> been struggling to get sonar to do, work with uefi. I may have to get
> on the ubuntu mate devs for that. I'm rambling, so will sign off. Just
> thought I'd throw this out there as another accessible option. So far
> we have, *vinux
> *ubuntu, all derivitives as long as they haven't ripped out orca
> *debian net install, although I haven't tested this one in a while
> *trisquel
> *arch
> *sonar
> *f123 (have never used it, but it's an option).
> That's it off the top of my head, although any distro can be made
> accessible with the right packages, but those are the most accessible
> out of the box that I know of
> If I'm missing one, please let me know
> Thanks
> Kendell clark
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