Rob,
Yes I am totally blind, and the image I am creating is intended for both running as a live cd and/or being installed onto a hard disk.
Perhaps the problem is that I don’t know the shortcut keys for gnome 3.
When I get to the desktop and start orca, I press alt+f1 which used to go to the gnome menu, but now it just says gnome-shell, and nothing I do changes what I see/hear (note I am runnig with both speech and Braille support).
When I build the image with the mate desktop, I have the same results, in fact I don’t see any differences other than the size of the iso image.
I want ot make this as cpu and memory efficient as possible so I can use it on virtually any computer I have to use.
Any tips would be appreciated.
From: Rob Whyte [mailto:fudge thefudge net]
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 6:33 PM
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] most accessible desktop with orca
Hi Don,
nice to see you on list again.
Gnome 3 is what Orca is developed upon.
What exactly are you finding about Gnome-shell that you feel is not accessible.
It may be you are not familiar with how to navigate using keyboard shortcuts?
I am not aware if you are vision impaired or not.
What is the purpose of the build if I may ask, is it intended to be run as a live image, if so the Mate environment may be a better solution.
Thanks
Rob Whyte
On 12/12/15 11:28, Don Raikes wrote:
Hello,
I am attempting to build an accessible version of kalilinux (a derivative of debian jesse).
I have the optio of using gnome, mate, xfce, or lxde as my desktop manager.
When I build the image with the gnome desktop it is using gnome3 and the gnome-shell is not very accessible.
If I build with the mate desktop, I got the gnome-shell again.
I haven’t tried either xfce or lxde yet.
My question is which desktop is most usable with orca? I personally liked the gnome2 desktop and was comfortable with it, but when I generate the gnome image even if I am able to pick between gnome and gnome-classic and choose gnome classic it doesn’t seem to make a difference.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
TIA,
Donald
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