Re: [orca-list] (General Linux) Ubuntu server accessibility



Well, to do a serial terminal install, a blind person would have to have a terminal emulator and a screen reader on a second computer. Plus you'd have to have a null-modem cable. But last i checked, the Linux serial terminal howto was still correct as ever. If you have a null-modem cable and a 2nd computer near your server with a screen reader, its worth trying.


It is actually kind of nice to have a serial terminal configured on a server. You can take a laptop to the server room, connect up the null modem cable, and get a console login prompt. A long time ago, servers didn't used to come with their own video card and keyboard. You always plugged a terminal into a serial port. Boot messages were automatically directed to ttyS0. All that stuff still works today although you may have to configure it.


On 7/26/20 11:38 AM, webczat_200 poczta onet pl wrote:
serial port is the best if you can. you do not depend on a screenreader,
yet you can do more than on speakup, even hwsynth, because even the
bootloader and bios in case of server supports it.

W dniu 26.07.2020 o 18:26, John G. Heim via orca-list pisze:
I am not sure its clear, there are 2 versions of Ubuntu, server and
desktop. Ubuntu server does not include GUI apps. It boots into a
character mode installer that does not have orca because orca is for the
GUI. There is another screen reader, called speakup,  for the character
interface. You can use speakup with a hardware synth in the Ubuntu
server installer. I have not been able to get software speech to work in
the Ubuntu server installer. I can't say it can't be done but I couldn't
figure out how to get it to work.


There are at least 4 ways to do an accessible Ubuntu server install:

1. Use a hardware speech synth.

2. Use a braille display.

3. Use a terminal emulator on a serial port.

4. Ssh.


I am not sure there are any advantages to using the Server version of
Ubunto on a server. At one time, when you compiled a kernel, you had to
specify how many file handles you wanted, how many simultaneous users
you wanted to allow. The kernel would take up more or less space in RAM
depending upon your choices. But most of that stuff is configured at
boot time these days.



On 7/26/20 7:07 AM, orca-list gnome org wrote:
This is, as far as I know, a physical server.
Devin Prater
r d t prater gmail com

Https://devinprater.github.io

On Jul 24, 2020, at 6:38 PM, Norman King <lists thekingstech com> wrote:

Hi.

Is this a virtual or physical server?

If virtual, there are cloud images for most linux distros. Ubuntu's
cloud images are at the following link.

https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/focal/current/

Once the system is installed, just use ssh, you don't even need speech.


Thanks.


On 7/24/2020 2:24 PM, Devin Prater via orca-list wrote:
Hi all. I will have the opportunity at work to set up an Ubuntu
server at some point. I’ll use Docker and such, but I can do that
part. My only issue is installing Ubuntu server onto the server. Is
there anything I need to know, or can I just SSH and go like normal,
or should I use the server itself and use Orca? Or does it even come
with Orca?
Devin Prater
r d t prater gmail com

Https://devinprater.github.io

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