Re: [orca-list] [Testers wanted before the official release] Slint64-4.2.1 release candidate is accessible.

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

Sounds good, but a bit unclear as to whether I can install and use with speech now, or if only braille is 
fully supported at the moment, and while I 
think I get it now, wording could be made a bit better re the f1 f2 f4 key bindings, i.e. it sounded like 
only in fluxbox f4 closes window uppon my 
first reading, but now it sounds like you have noat made an accessible run dialog for fluxbox, i.e. f2 dow 
not work there. 
Change but to except in would clear that up, e.g. 
f2 pops up a run dialog except in fluxbox...
 
Anyway, if you are not working on something native or fancy, you may wish to talk to Storm and myself re 
filling in a couple of gaps such as that lack 
of a run dialog. 
I've been using a fluxbox configuration that sounds  not all that different from what you are doing for a few 
years now, i.e. I use pretty much all of 
the same default apps, (I go back and forth between a few different terminal emulators looking for best 
accessbility and flexibility, b ut may well be 
using lxterminal at the moment). 
I do use a run dialog that storm wrote and I tweaked a bit  and have a categorized apps menu with some extras 
in it such as orca preferences, gui logout  
etc with more development coming there. 
I've never used slakware, but am glad you are doing something with  it and when time permits am interested in 
testing, and as some of, maybe a whole lot 
of what you are doing seems to be in line with my ideas for ligh fast and flexible Linux both novice friendly 
and ready to rock for power users 
accessible Linux.
Congrats, want to compare notes when time permits on a thing or two, e.g. are GUI apps run as root accessible 
such as gparted, gedit or other editors, 
etc?
If so, did you have tgo do anything special to get that happening?
Regards,    


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     B.H.
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  Didier Spaier wrote:
Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 12:34:53PM +0200

> Hello list,
>
> this is a request for testing the upcoming Slint64-14.2.1 by visually
> impaired potential users, already posted in the blinux list.
>
> Slint is a Linux distribution based on Slackware and Salix, polyglot,
> versatile and beginners friendly, cf. our wiki http://slint.fr
>
> A full Slint installation is functional out of the box and can be
> tailored to fit most computing requirements.
>
> The current stable version can be installed and used with braille.
>
> The incoming Slint64-14.2.1 will be fully accessible to visually
> impaired users, using speech and or a braille device, from installation
> to everyday usage in text mode as well as in graphical mode.
>
> Several accessible graphical environments are included in the release
> candidate ISO, that can be downloaded here:
> http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-testing/iso/
> Namely: BlackBox, Fluxbox, Fvwm, LXDE, WindowMaker, XFCE
> In addition, Maté can be installed with a simple command.
>
> For package management, Slint mostly uses slapt-get, similar to apt-get
> but adapted to packages in the Slackware format.
>
> The main software used to provide speech are espeakup with espeak on
> the console, orca with espeak-ng, speech-dispatcher and at-spi in
> graphical environments. pulseaudio is the sound server used.
>
> brltty is used for braille, both on the console and in graphical
> environments, orca communicating with brlapi in the latter case.
>
> zero configuration post installation is needed for the first regular
> user created during installation to get speech in the installed system,
> if speech was used during installation. brltty is started during
> installation and by default in the installed system.
>
> To increase the accessibility of graphical environments, the same key
> bindings are set in all mentioned above:
> Alt+F1 pops up the panel's Application menu
> Alt+F2 pops up a Run dialog (but in Fluxbox)
> Alt+F4 closes the focused window
> Alt+Tab cycle between windows, giving the raised one the focus.
>
> All panels' application menus shipped have the same layout. From top to
> bottom:
> Terminal emulator (lxterminal by default)
> File manager (PCManfm by default)
> Web browser (Mozilla Firefox by default)
> Mail client (Mozilla Thunderbird by default)
> Preferences
> Slint Dashboard (alas non accessible yet as it's a Qt4 app)
> Applications sorted by category
> Run dialog
> Logout dialog
>
> To know more please read:
> http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-testing/README
> http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-testing/ACCESSIBILITY
>
> You can post your findings answering this message in the list, and also
> in Slint's mailing list:
> http://slint.fr/mailman/listinfo/slint_slint.fr
> and in our forum:
> https://forum.salixos.org/viewforum.php?f=44
>
> I am thankful to the many people who helped me develop this new version.
>
> I look forward for your testing results and feedback.
>
> Have a good day,
>
> Didier Spaier
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