Re: [orca-list] Accessible-Coconut version 16.04.22 Released

[David Hunt <dahunt posteo de>]

For the most part, the included apps and keyboard shortcuts are similar 
to ones I'd end up with, after installing and setting up a new distro to 
my liking, though I wouldn't use so many media players or wine.  Thanks 
for making me aware of the book reading and authoring tools, as well as 
those for scanning and working with ocr; no other distro I know includes 
these, and they can be hard to fine.  I like the ability to easily 
toggle the screen off and to check battery. Also, thanks for making 
convenient shortcuts for changing orca's settings on the fly.I don't 
understand, however, why you decided to set up an automatically 
logged-in user and hostname? I can make users and change some of this 
setup afterword, but it just seems funny, as if the computer is to have 
only one user, but it's not really in single-user mode.  On first pass 
through the installation instructions, If looks like, if I were to 
follow them to the letter, I'd end up breaking my machine's UEFI setup.  
I haven't yet installed it, but booted the live medium.  Your quickstart 
text files on the live system's desktop are good; do they appear on the 
installed system? Finally, what desktop does this system have?  I see 
the new GNOME applets but Mate-style desktop layout, and the old 
Indicator applet, such as in Trisquel 7.  Did you guys 'roll your own', 
taking elements from several?



Cheers,



Dave  H.






On 11/28/2017 12:38 AM, Sath Linux wrote:
> Dear friends,
> We cocofrix team are very happy to announce the release of
> Accessible-Coconut 16.04.22.
> Accessible coconut is a Gnu/Linux based operating system customized to
> meet the challenges
> caused by impaired vision.
>
> Latest Version can be downloaded from : www.cocofrix.com
>
> Special features of this distribution..
>
> 1 All the libraries in the world are accessible before the visually
> challenged. Linux intelligent OCR solution. Lios is a tool
> developed by our team which can help a person to read printed
> materials in almost all the prominent languages of the world including
> Indian languages like Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, etc. Lios has all the
> facilities required for a standard OCR tool such as pdf conversion,
> image conversion, acquire image from scanner, screenshot ocr, go to page,
> go to line, page settings, Audio Converter, Text Cleaner, and like.
> Lios has a low vision environment with facility to change Text Color,
> Background Color, Font, and facility to Read with Highlight.
> Lios use Tesseract 4.0 and Cuneiform as OCR Engines.
>
> 2 IBus-Sharada-Braille : - a system wide input method for producing text.
> One can use six key approach for Brailler mode,  for producing text in
> different languages.  Letter f, d, s, j, k, l represent the six dots
> of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, of braille and we can use different combinations
> for different letters.
> All the contractions and Abbreviations in English are included in the tool
> as default. And again, one can create any number of contractions and
> abbreviations of one’s own choice in any language. We have provided a
> language editor for adding languages, abbreviation editor,
> and a preference to select any key to represent the braille dots.
> We have also provided seven and eight keys to support languages like
> Japanese, and Chinese.
> One hand mode. We have added a feature which helps a person with one
> hand to use IBus-Sharada-Braille.
>
>
> 3 Tuxtype : -  Tuxtype is a sophisticated program, to practice typing
> in different
> languages, and it is written in C and powered by SDL. We have made it
> accessible and
> one can learn typing in a game like way. We have also added a six key
> component in it and it is available as
> tuxtype braille.
>
>
> 4 Tuxmaths : - Tuxmaths is a game for practicing basic mathematical
> skills. Lan Multiplayer is also possible and accessible.
>
> 5 Chess accessibility : - We have made Xboard accessible. Xboard an
> application for playing chess
> using different chess engines.
>
> 6 Accessible Musical Instrument : - We have provided latest version of
> Linux MultiMedia Studio(LMMS) which is accessible. LMMS is an
> ingenious music producer and editor.
> We have also provided a menu item named Instruments inside sound and
> video menu to play Instruments via LMMS.
>
> 7 Office suit : - A visually challenged person can use more accessible
> open office spreadsheet,
> And Libreoffice Writer for Document purposes.
>
> 8 Fixes for ORCA Screen Reader : - We have made small changes in orca.
> One of which allow smooth continuous reading
> which can be enabled by selecting "Sentence(Using Full stop)" in
> Say-All-By Option. Another change is we have removed
> call to window.clearCache() which quit orca while closing or switch
> between applications. This can be reverted using the
> menu item inside Universal Access Menu.
>
> 9 Artha - English offline Dictionary, Select the word and press
> Alt+Ctrl+W in order to get the meaning.
>
> 10 SMPlayer : - Play audio's and Video's in any speed.
>
> 11 Sharada-Braille-Writer : - Simple text editor for typing in six key
> Braille mode.
>
> 12 Chrome With Speech : - Accessible Chrome Web Browser.
>
> 13 Hydrogen : - Play Drums.
>
> 14 Audacity : - Sound recording and editing.
>
> 15 Curlew : - Easy to use accessible multimedia converter.
>
> 16 Daisy-Player : - Play daisy audio formats.
>
> 17 eBook-Speaker : - Read ebook aloud.
>
> 19 CPU-G : - View your system configuration, Kernel Version, etc.
>
> 20 Format-USB : - format USB pendrive or external hard-drive.
>
> 21 VCD-Imager : - Extract video from VCD/DVD.
>
> 22 Pidgin : - Universal chat client.
>
> 23 Calibre : - Manage E-book collections as well as to create, edit,
> and read e-books.
>
> 24 Audacious : - Audio Player.
>
> 25 blueman : - BlueTooth manager.
>
> 26 Periodic-Table : - Accessible Periodic Table.
>
> 27 Grub-Customizer : - Change boot entries of operating systems.
>
> 28 Gparted : - Accessible partitioner for your storage devices.
>
> Thanking you cocofrix team.