I do Linux support for the Math department at the University Of
Wisconsin. We run Ubuntu on everything from laptops to
supercomputers. It is pretty good. IIRC, I had some problem
starting orca with one of the previous installation images. But
generally, I think the accessibility is just fine. I almost never
run into any problems with accessibility on an installed system.
But I run debian testing on my personal machines. The problems I
have with Ubuntu have nothing to do with accessibility. My first
problem with Ubuntu is that it installs a lot of stuff I don't
want. For example, there's a graphical software update manager
There's some security thing called apparmor which, to me, seems
just annoying. The other problem I have with Ubuntu is that they
try to be an industry leader but they can't seem to win any of the
standards battles.Upstart and unity are examples of packages they
developed, pushed, and then abandoned.
If you run Debian testing, you are occasionally going to run into accessibility problems. But I run Debian testing because for me, the benefits of a fairly stable rolling release outweigh the occasional problem.
Hello,
I have not tried Ubuntu 20.10. Ubuntu is not a rolling distro. I've seen some users stating they have issues with Ubuntu on this list anyway. Is that no longer the case?
Thanks.
On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 2:56 AM Norman King <lists thekingstech com> wrote:
Did you try ubuntu 20.10?
On 8/31/2020 10:51 PM, Nimer Jaber via orca-list wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for an accessible distro which allows for rolling releases, which is going to be accessible.
- I attempted to install Fedora Rawhide, but was unable to make progress as I got no speech after boot of the live CD for some reason. I am able to boot prior Fedora versions, but not rawhide. I have never been successful at upgrading to a new release with Fedora without things breaking.
- I attempted to install Debian's testing version, but the installer seemed inaccessible. As soon as I launched the installer I got no speech in the installer window, making me think that Orca can't access it. I tried to enable assistive technologies in the preferences, but as soon as I logged out, I lost speech and couldn't get back in.
- I almost downloaded Solus, but saw a thread with some users saying that its installer isn't accessible as of 4.0
I am not interested in Arch, and am looking for a distro with either Gnome 3 or Mate Desktop, something which offers a rolling release, and will work well with Orca. Thoughts anyone? It seems that the latest batch of distros seem to be less and less accessible, with issues with installers, using different window managers, etc. Is there any work to mitigate this, or are we going to lose access to most of the distros that don't require much tinkering to get working?
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