yeah,
was going to mention that. I had to have help getting my g3 up to working order with some sighted assistance from across the web on Skype. lets just say thats not easy.
most of the installer images for the blind (such as blinux, vinux and some of the ubuntu images (desktop or alternative) have a command line argument you can use yjy yarns on speech. on the g3, that was not usable due to a bug in espeak. once I gad the machine up to operation and had orca up and running, there were a few packages that needed to be installed (such as lynx). I have yet to learn all the keyboard commands for orca. I am still a relative newbie at this.
-Eric
On Nov 8, 2010, at 8:37 AM, Dazed_75 wrote:
> Perhaps we could document the process well enough to let installfest volunteers be capable of setting up a system for a blind user. I am sure that involves more than just turning on orca. It may also mean knowing enough to teach that user the basics of how to use the system. That way the blind user gets a workable system to begin with.
>
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Technomage Hawke <technomage.hawke@gmail.com> wrote:
> is that darrel shandrow you are talking about?m if so, I say "HI!"
>
> anyway, I can give an overview on linux accessibility. which distributions work well, and which don't (believe it or not, some don't offer themselves to accessibility as well as others).
>
> setting up orca via ssh on an already running system is pretty simple. doing it in the blind from that running system is a bit more difficult (as in, getting the packages, etc).
>
> I haven't tried anything for kde yet, so I cannot yet stipulate that kde will work with orca.
>
> -Eric
>
> On Nov 7, 2010, at 11:23 PM, der.hans wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
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