Re: [orca-list] Various questions about Orca and the linux world

[José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

Hi Vincenzo.
Welcome.
See some  comments in the body of your message.

On 10/13/2014 07:14 AM, Vincenzo Rubano wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> my name is Vincenzo and I am a blind Italian computer science student. Looking for various information about 
> linux, I came across this list and I decided to subscribe.
>
> 2. Searching for information, I came across two distros that claims to be designed with accessibility in 
> mind: Vinux and Sonar. Honestly, I noticed that these distros are popular only among blind users and could be 
> considered something like a custom product for blind people. Since I don’t like this philosophy, I was 
> wondering wether anyone had experience with “mainstream” linux distros and could recommend me what distro to 
> start with.
One advantage of this kind of distro is that a novice user can install 
without much problem, using an accessible installer. Since installed, 
the behavior of the distro is similar or equal to a normal distro.
Since vinux is based in ubuntu and sonar is based in manjaro, you can 
try ubuntu or manjaro directly. Personally I use arch linux, although 
the installation is not very easy to a novice user.

>

> 4. In some pages on the Vinux website, I read that Orca works better with Speech dispatcher than with Gnome 
> speech (which is the default speech engine in Gnome, if I understood correctly). Can you confirm that? If so, 
> how hard switch from Gnome Speech to speech dispatcher is?
The gnome-speech wer discontinued.
> 5. From what I’ve understood, the most critical points to get an accessible GUI in a distro are the login 
> manager and the window manager. Do you have any recommendations about which ones to pick/avoid?
I use gdm.
> 6. Last but not least, do you know wether Orca works properly with gnome-terminal? If not, is there any 
> alternative to make it accessible for a blind user?
In general the accessibility is ok in gnome-terminal using orca. You 
need to use the flat review commands of orca to explorer the content of 
screen. I use gnome-terminal all the day without problems.
> Thank you in advance for your help. Sorry for asking so much questions, but I’d like to make productive tests 
> instead of wasting time on something someone else already figured out. I do believe that putting together all 
> the information we have it could be even easier to communicate our issues with mainstream distro maintainers 
> and, maybe, get their interest in fixing them.
>
> Looking forward to hearing back from you.
> Hope this helps.
> Cheers
>
> Vincenzo.
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{}S José Vilmar Estácio de Souza