Re: [orca-list] Is the manjaro installer accessible?

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

Arch may break stuff, but I have never seen it break accessibility. You can always freeze some packages from 
updating if you have specific fears, but 
speakup is in all the kernels, and orca  updates would only effect some functionality if you choose the 
orca-git package in the AUR where clearly you 
are working with development versions. The at-spi packages do  mostly have git options as well, but I have 
mostly run the stable branch versions, mostly 
in extra or commnunity repos, same with speech-dispatcher, although I did use the AUR version for a while. 
Again, I have had arch breakage, but 
accessibility has never been the issue. Some packages may requiure some initial configuration to get the most 
accessible interface, but those 
configurations are not overwritten with updates. 
You can add repos to get your proprietary firmware if you wish to use Debian. 
Manjaro has more than one version as I recall, but I do not know if they all use the same installer or not. 
Ubuntu will give you out of the box hardware support for most machines, so as Kyle states it is also a good 
option. 
Orca is a gnome project, so it is hardly a surprise that it concentrates on gnome. XFCE devs seem to be 
generally overwhelmed, and have given up on 
accessibility for the moment, proablyh the year anyway. Mate cares, and Orca has made the minor adaptations 
required to help it be a very good 
alternative. 
My suggestion is to contact those in charge of any desktop you wish to use and ask about accessiility, and  
make specific suggestions if things are far 
enough along to do that. 
If you do not mind installing a new OS frequently then Fedora is an option as well, and I know some folks 
using Gentoo, but you need to know your stuph 
before jumping in there, more so than with arch which requires more time and knowledge than the other options 
mentioned. 



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  austinAustin quesada wrote:
Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 03:56:00PM -0800

> Hi list. While i think sonar is great, i was wondering if manjaro
> itself has orca built in? If not, could you guys advise on a distro
> that is not debien based? I know people usually advise ubuntu or gnome
> as the default desktop. I'm admittedly a bit frustrated that linux
> accessibility appears to be singularly focused on the gnome project,
> or Ubuntu. While arch is a great option, my concern is that it's
> frequent updates have the possibility of breaking accessibility. Sorry
> for my rant, but i'm basically looking for a distro that doesn't use
> gnome as the default, but could still work with orca, whether through
> an installer, or the command line. So, what are my options? The reason
> i brought up Debien is because, it seems to have issues with most of
> my hardware, because i seem to need a lot of proprietary firmware and
> drivers. Thanks for any advice, and thanks for reading.
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