Re: [orca-list] is cinnamon accessible?

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

Okay, if in lftp you do a get on the torrent url then do a torrent 
./torrenturl
the torrent downloads no problems.

Cinnamonmint the version I downloaded is accessible and uses gtk2 and 
has orca in it already.  It may use some gtk3 but I haven't found that 
yet in what I updated with it yet.
There are things I cannot yet do with cinnamonmint probably due to a 
lack of knowledge but I'll explain what I can here to make the path 
easier for others.

After burning the dvd and booting the dvd, listen for the bells and 
those may take about five minutes to ring.
Once bells have rung, type alt-f2 orca <enter>.
That should bring up orca.
super-d brings up the desktop.
Downarrow to install cinnamon icon and hit enter to install.
If you're using english hit control-tab to get continue button then hit 
enter.
Now you're on a silent screen so hit alt-f4 to threaten cinnamonmint and 
then tab to cancel button and hit enter and you'll hear the screen 
content cinnamonmint didn't want to tell you until you threatened it. 
This threat technique is quite useful throughout the installer.  The 
rest of the questions in the installer are pretty simple to answer and 
there aren't as many as other distros.  A root account is not created 
for you; probably best to do that post-install.  The system has a 
ubiquity slide show so maybe using ubiquity rather than orca gets a 
better install experience.  I'll have to try that next.
When it's time to restart system wait until dvd tray is opened by the 
system before removing dvd.
cinnamonmint takes about 2 minutes to be ready to log you in on hard 
drive.
First thing to do and I found this out with sighted assistance on boot 
screen to log in is hit f1 then key in user name and hit enter then key 
in password then hit enter.  If you did it right you hear bells again 
and you're logged in.
hit alt-f2 orca to get screen reader talking.
alt-f2 gnome-terminal <enter>
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications screen-reader-enabled 
true <enter>
exit <enter>
then reboot.
Orca does not work during login but turns on after correct credentials 
are entered during login and you hear orca speak before bells ring for 
successful login.
I have no idea how to get orca talking before login and continue to talk 
through login yet.
The other thing I don't know how to do is turn accessibility settings on 
by checking the box.  I haven't managed to login as root directly with 
orca and get to universal accessibility on cinnamonmint yet either.  I 
need to find out how to do that.
Network settings are accessed by running cinnamon-control-center and 
apt-get is available for updates when you're ready to do those.
More than that I don't know yet.

On Fri, 26 Aug 2016, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 03:23:25
> From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] is cinnamon accessible?
>
> if you can download latest version from original provider it is accessible. 
> It's not possible to download their torrent since no issuer is available for 
> their certificate so certificate isn't trusted by lftp. Searching on google 
> shows complaints by people who accidentally turned the screen reader on and 
> want to turn it off.  I used cinnamon mint "screen reader" as a google search 
> and found that much.  When other distros come out with their own versions of 
> distributions they tend to lack features found in original distributions.  I 
> tried using:
> https://torrents.linuxmint.com/torrents/linuxmint-18-cinnamon-64bit.iso.torrent 
> for a download.
>
>
>
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