Re: [orca-list] Podcasts and/or audio tutorials needed

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
Personally, I'd focus on all of the desktop environments that are
accessible enough for an average blind user. That would include gnome,
mate, and unity. I think the first thing to cover would be to explain
just what a desktop environment is, because most blind people are
accustomed to windows or mac, where what you get is what you get, you
can't choose which desktop you use. Then we'd focus on how to use each
desktop, how to navigate the menus, how to change settings, that sort of
thing. I do plan to cover booting live images, but as you say, and you
are right that booting can be a rabbit hole. This is mostly because
computers are not at all standardized. On one computer it might boot the
cd or usb drive with no trouble, and on another it might need to be done
by accessing a boot menu or going into the bios. This is true regardless
of platform, linux, windows, or mac but most people are accustomed to
turning their computer on and their OS loading, so they tend to
attribute problems to being the fault of linux, when it's not. I don't
know what to do about that. I can explain, but if people refuse to
listen to the explanations, instead choosing to think that there
platform is better there's not much I can do. My first order of business
is to figure out just how to make a recording like this. Recording
myself is easy. The challenging part is going to be figuring out how to
record the speech coming out of the vm. Pulse can do this, but I'm not
at all sure how. My goal is to make good quality, easy to understand
podcasts that an average nvda using windows user can follow.
Thanks
Kendell clark


On 09/06/2015 11:03 PM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 07:49:31AM AEST, Glenn wrote:
> > That is why the Jaws tutorials are not really just a tutorial on using Jaws, but a tutorial on using the 
> > computer, and the keyboard commands are added in as the tutorial goes.
>
> And therein lies the problem. With multiple desktop environments that are accessible, Unity, GNOME, which 
> one do you focus on? Do you provide documentation on the rabbit hole that is operating system installation, 
> or even live image booting? yes both of those can be rabbit holes, that would require a lot of extra 
> documentation to *try* to cover all the various scenarios a user may be in, a lot of which would likely 
> require assistance from someone with full vision.
>
> A good workaround for the above is the use of virtual machines, using VMWare player. yes, that is a little 
> bit of a rabbit hole, in that particular computer hardware is required to run virtual machines, and even 
> with the best configuration, it is not easy to get a low latency response from a VM, with regards to audio.
>
> I think before we even begin thinking about getting material produced, we need to clearly define a scope, 
> and stick to it. If that means one distro over another, or a desktop environment over another, than so be 
> it.
>
> Luke
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