That depends entirely on where you get your computer from, Janina, and which OS it's running. Linux, naturally, goes without saying you can dig under the hood so to speak and figure that out, but Mac/Windows are locked down so you can't easily change those things. I'd argue if anything you do need some level of technical knowledge. I grew up on DOS in the 80s/90s as well and I still can recall the steps needed in autoexec.bat or config.sys and I have a passionate hatred of autodetecting sound cards....mostly since they were extremely hardware specific. Not a shocker, but I did run across some that'd lock the system, and don't get me started on memory under DOS with EMS and XMS and TSR and everything else.....those were interesting times. I learned a lot with that, but I learned just as much poking around in WIn95 at the time, when you could still reboot into DOS mode. I miss that about Windows. THankfully....TTY exists on Linux. I'd still argue though that too much system knowledge is a dual edged sword. Yes you could fix issues but oyou could also cause more issues if you're too confident and dont know what you're tweaking. Jace On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 08:08:50AM -0400, Janina Sajka via orca-list wrote:
I submit it's not a question of "If," but of "when." Good luck using any computing environment for multiple decades without ever experiencing system failures. When such a failure occurs, you have more options to work toward the solution, if you have more options for accessing the parts of the system that do work. A simple example proves the point, imo. What screen reader is available when the system stops booting with the message that says: "Give root password for system maintanance. There's more than one correct answer to this question, but Orca over Speech Dispatcher is not one of them. Janina Jude DaShiell writes:It's adviseable to have text console operation capability available not necessarily to use with orca but to use as a back out if orca ever quits on you for whatever reason. -- _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/ GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org-- Janina Sajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/ GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
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