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

From: kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>
To: "B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>, orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] announcing another accessible distro, ubuntu-mate
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:07:00 -0500

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lol. I completely forgot about fedora. SHame on me. Gentoo is an
option I suppose, but it's probably not for me. But it *is* an option,
so I'm not going to limit choices to ones that appeal to me. That's
what's so great about linux, choice.
Thanks
Kendell clark


On 10/09/2014 05:50 PM, B. Henry wrote:

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: 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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References:
- [orca-list] announcing another accessible distro, ubuntu-mate
  - From: kendell clark
- Re: [orca-list] announcing another accessible distro, ubuntu-mate
  - From: B. Henry

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