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

[Tony Baechler <tony baechler net>]

I am writing this on list because I would like list members' opinions on 
this.  What do you think?  Am I going at this from the wrong direction?

On 9/6/2015 9:03 PM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 07:49:31AM AEST, Glenn wrote:
> And therein lies the problem. With multiple desktop environments that are accessible, Unity, GNOME, which one 
> do you focus on?
Luke, your posts have really, really long lines which make it difficult to 
quote.

Eventually, it would be good to have tutorials for all desktops, including 
KDE if it becomes really accessible.  For now, I would focus on MATE.  The 
reasons why I would pick MATE over the rest are as follows:

1. It's very stable.  It's had many years of development being originally a 
fork of Gnome 2.  I've never had it crash or do anything odd.

2. It's fast.  I can arrow through the menus with no delay.  It runs well on 
older hardware and isn't resource intensive.

3. It has good keyboard support.  I can arrow through the menus, use the 
file manager, switch among apps, etc from the keyboard.  I didn't like Gnome 
3 because if you don't know the magic key combination to get to the menus, 
nothing seems to happen.  With MATE, I have a more traditional desktop.

4. It is now an officially supported Ubuntu derivative, so anyone can 
download and burn a Ubuntu MATE 15.04 DVD and have speech.  As a nice bonus, 
if a sighted user installs Ubuntu MATE, Orca is included, thus making their 
skills transferrable.  Even if they get a donated machine with MATE already 
on it, they can still get some use out of the tutorials.

As an aside, I would eventually like to be able to get computers with Linux 
already on them for sale or donations to those in need, but that's a very 
long way off.
Finally, it's more like Windows XP.  For people coming from Windows, they'll 
find it easier to adapt since the layout is very much like what they're used 
to using.  Although MATE doesn't have a search like Windows 7 does, Windows 
7 still has the start menu, so even Windows 7 users shouldn't have a problem 
switching.

Eventually, if the MATE tutorial goes over well, I would consider the other 
desktops, but we have to start somewhere.