Re: [orca-list] which linux distro with Orca

[Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud hypra fr>]

Hello Michael,

You can use Debian that can be installed by a blind person. If you 
install Debian with speech or a braille display everything is correctly 
configured for accessibility.

You could install Debian 9 that is the next stable release of Debian and 
it's now correctly tested.
To download Debian 9 it's here : 
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/
For documentation about installer accessibility it's here : 
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch05s02.html
For general accessibility documentation it's here : 
https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility

I advise you to choose the Mate desktop environment because I think it's 
the simpler one for a newcomer.

Let me know if you need precision or if you have any questions.

Best regards.
--
Alex ARNAUD
Visual-Impairment Project Manager
Hypra - "Humanizing technology"


Le 15/05/2017 à 21:12, Michael Weaver via orca-list a écrit :
> What Linux distor would anyone suggest for someone who is 39 years old,
> a medium level user of Linux which works with Orca?
> I ask because I am not a Linux newby but not someone who feels they can
> edit system files in order to get certain software to work.
> I don't know the state of the latest Ubuntu since Luke left their
> accessability team, Sonar is conbining with Vinux which are going to use
> the Fedora way of doing things, a lot of which are not newby or
> intermediate friendly when it comes to installing VLC etc from the brief
> look I had at Fedora 21 a while ago I think, and Arch and Gentoo are to
> complicated for someone like me. I read somewhere that Mint now includes
> Orca or did in one version but other than that I don't know the state of
> which easy to use Distros include an easy way of installing with Orca
> and running it with Orca as someone who has no Sight at all and a family
> who may not be as #technology savvy as me. I had to get someone outside
> my family to reconfigure the boot menus on my laptop to read from a CD
> on my HP laptop and I still need to find the corect key sequence to be
> able to boot into Linux from a Live CD to try it with my system.
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