Re: [orca-list] any full time mate users?

[Krishnakant <krmane openmailbox org>]

On Tuesday 08 March 2016 01:27 PM, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Le 08/03/2016 07:27, kendell clark a écrit :
> > hi
> > The one thing you have to be aware of in mate is that apps run as root
> > are not accessible. I think this is a mate issue, joanie says she can't
> > get access to at-spi events with accerciser so there's nothing she can
> > do. It's best to keep a gnome live stick or dvd around for when you need
> > to run gparted and other partition rescue tools. The exception are gnome
> > 3 apps like gedit. Those are accessible when run as root. Keep in mind
> > that this is only gui apps that have this problem. Of course terminal
> > apps will work just fine, and this is only gtk2 apps that have this
> In my experience, what you describe is true if you are as root with su -
> but if you just do su, accessibility remains.

I did not get this point clearly.
> > problem. The panel can be a little verbose. If you don't mind hearing
> > "bottom expanded edge panel. Bottom expanded edge panel panel" every
> > once in a while when tabbing around, you're fine. Other than that mate
> > is fully accessible with orca. You do need to enable accessibility in
> > the assistive technologies dialog box before it will talk, unless debian
> > does this for you, it probably does. If you want to be able to access
> Yes, Debian does.

I did not understand what exactly is Debian doing here?
You mean to say that I have to start accessibility option during setup 
and Debian automatically initializes it for all subsequent logins is it?
I have never done a Debian Installation on my own so wish to know what 
should I exactly do to get started?
i am downloading the 4.4 gb dvd iso right now and will write it to a Pen 
drive.

Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.