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

[austinAustin quesada <austin arq gmail com>]

Thanks for the response. I'm using fedora on a laptop right now for a
linux command line course i'm taking. But i like options, but if lack
of accessibility backs me in to a tight corner, i get pretty
frustrated. From my point of vies, linux is about choice, and i think
disabled or otherwise, we should all have the same options that our
fellow linux users have, whether you want to use ratpoison, fluxbox,
or KDE, and it shouldn't matter which distro is chosen. Of course that
is just my oppinion.

On 3/5/15, B. Henry <burt1iband gmail com> wrote:
> 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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> > http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
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