Re: [orca-list] First steps experience with Orca on Ubuntu.

[Reece O'Bryan <reece obryan icloud com>]

As someone looking to do my first manual Orca installation, I agree with this.


Thank you,

-Reece 

> On Dec 21, 2020, at 11:02 AM, Pawel Urbanski <pawel e-urbanski com> wrote:
>
> Hi Alex,
> I followed the Ubuntu instructions. Orca is very convenient to launch
> with the keystroke. Then I got stuck with the Braille display. I use
> an old Braillex Tiny by Paypenmayer (however you spell the name). It
> required a bit of manual config file tweaking, but it was working only
> in the terminal.
> Once I installed brltty-speechd and added the systemd service it
> started flying...
>
> My point is that, it is very likely if not certain that power users
> will be the once switching to Linux after using Mac or Windows. They
> can figure things out, but due to so many places with similar, but at
> times unclear information, getting started can be a bit confusing and
> not as smooth saling.
>
> It seems like the desktop environment choice needs a bit more
> guidance. Debian's accessibility how-to has surprisingly lots of
> information - including sound theme - for example.
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