* [gentoo-user] gentoo accessibility re i'm blind, @ 2020-04-22 12:04 Majid Hussain 2020-04-22 12:28 ` Ashley Dixon 2020-04-26 16:13 ` [gentoo-user] " William Hubbs 0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Majid Hussain @ 2020-04-22 12:04 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-user hi there, i'm blind and wanted to get started with gentoo. what's accessibility like? is there speech via orca the screen reader or sound on the minimal iso via espeakup provided? I red this document, https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Accessibility which seembs to be up-to-date, is there a update on this? not sure if this was the correct place to post my question? i'm a complete newb with gentoo I would be greatfull for your assistence, i'm looking for an adventure. Majid -- kind regards, Majid Hussain ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo accessibility re i'm blind, 2020-04-22 12:04 [gentoo-user] gentoo accessibility re i'm blind, Majid Hussain @ 2020-04-22 12:28 ` Ashley Dixon 2020-04-22 12:45 ` Majid Hussain 2020-04-22 17:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman 2020-04-26 16:13 ` [gentoo-user] " William Hubbs 1 sibling, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Ashley Dixon @ 2020-04-22 12:28 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-user [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2989 bytes --] > i'm blind and wanted to get started with gentoo. > what's accessibility like? > is there speech via orca the screen reader or sound on the minimal iso > via espeakup provided? > I red this document, > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Accessibility > which seembs to be up-to-date, is there a update on this? On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 01:04:48PM +0100, Majid Hussain wrote: > hi there, Hi Majid, I hope you're well. Have you visited [1] ? It is a community of Linux-focused blind and visually-impaired users, such as yourself, who have formed a community out of building accessibility software; primarily screen-readers [2]. You'd probably have the most difficulty on the initial set-up, as Gentoo installation takes place, almost entirely, in the tty, before you have any opportunity to install X. You could try running it in some sort of virtual machine and see if a screen-reader could parse the contents of the V.M.\ window. > I'm a complete newb with gentoo I would be greatful for your assistance How much prior Linux experience do you have ? Do you know of a screen-reader that works well once you have got to the point of installing a window manager ? This is the ONE situation under which I would recommend GNOME, as it is generally the best with built-in accessibility features [3]. Unfortunately, a lot of the more niche W.M.s (such as i3) require an incredible amount of tinkering (and often changes to the code-base) to introduce any sort of considering for accessibility. > I'm looking for an adventure. Don't worry, all Gentoo users get a hell of an experience, blind or otherwise. I'm sure you'll have an incredible amount of fun using this distro. ;-) > not sure if this was the correct place to post my question? gentoo-user is the general space for any user-land (non-developer) issues regarding Gentoo, so I doubt there are any problems with you posting here. Everything from this list (like all Gentoo lists) gets archived on-line by Gentoo at [4] and Google at [5], so in addition to solving your own problems, mailing lists provide the advantage of helping future users with similar issues. There is also the `gentoo-accessibility` list [6], but it's been dead for a while. (There are various other H.T.T.P.\ archiving services, such as M.Arc. [7], however Gentoo and Google are the most popular in search results.) Hope this helps, Ashley. [1] http://www.linux-speakup.org/ [2] http://www.linux-speakup.org/spkguide.txt [3] https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility [4] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/ [5] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/linux.gentoo.user [6] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-accessibility/ [7] https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-user -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 833 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo accessibility re i'm blind, 2020-04-22 12:28 ` Ashley Dixon @ 2020-04-22 12:45 ` Majid Hussain 2020-04-22 12:49 ` Majid Hussain 2020-04-22 13:32 ` Mark Knecht 2020-04-22 17:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman 1 sibling, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Majid Hussain @ 2020-04-22 12:45 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-user hi there, now er days, the mate desktop is considderd very accessible, compared to gnome, orca is the screen reader used when a gui is launched, espeakup is the screen reader that is used on the tty before xorg and friends are launched, it's what debian uses on the net install image, hence me asking if espeakup would be able to be added to an iso image? unless there's away of building your own iso image from a non gentoo system? Majid On 22/04/2020, Ashley Dixon <ash@suugaku.co.uk> wrote: >> i'm blind and wanted to get started with gentoo. >> what's accessibility like? >> is there speech via orca the screen reader or sound on the minimal iso >> via espeakup provided? >> I red this document, >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Accessibility >> which seembs to be up-to-date, is there a update on this? > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 01:04:48PM +0100, Majid Hussain wrote: >> hi there, > > Hi Majid, I hope you're well. > > Have you visited [1] ? It is a community of Linux-focused blind > and > visually-impaired users, such as yourself, who have formed a community out > of > building accessibility software; primarily screen-readers [2]. > > You'd probably have the most difficulty on the initial set-up, as > Gentoo > installation takes place, almost entirely, in the tty, before you have > any > opportunity to install X. You could try running it in some sort of > virtual > machine and see if a screen-reader could parse the contents of the V.M.\ > window. > >> I'm a complete newb with gentoo I would be greatful for your assistance > > How much prior Linux experience do you have ? Do you know of a > screen-reader > that works well once you have got to the point of installing a window > manager ? > > This is the ONE situation under which I would recommend GNOME, as it > is > generally the best with built-in accessibility features [3]. > Unfortunately, a > lot of the more niche W.M.s (such as i3) require an incredible amount > of > tinkering (and often changes to the code-base) to introduce any sort > of > considering for accessibility. > >> I'm looking for an adventure. > > Don't worry, all Gentoo users get a hell of an experience, blind or > otherwise. > I'm sure you'll have an incredible amount of fun using this distro. > ;-) > >> not sure if this was the correct place to post my question? > > gentoo-user is the general space for any user-land (non-developer) > issues > regarding Gentoo, so I doubt there are any problems with you posting > here. > Everything from this list (like all Gentoo lists) gets archived on-line > by > Gentoo at [4] and Google at [5], so in addition to solving your own > problems, > mailing lists provide the advantage of helping future users with similar > issues. > > There is also the `gentoo-accessibility` list [6], but it's been dead > for a > while. > > (There are various other H.T.T.P.\ archiving services, such as M.Arc. > [7], > however Gentoo and Google are the most popular in search > results.) > > Hope this helps, > Ashley. > > [1] http://www.linux-speakup.org/ > [2] http://www.linux-speakup.org/spkguide.txt > [3] https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility > [4] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/ > [5] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/linux.gentoo.user > [6] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-accessibility/ > [7] https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-user > > -- > > Ashley Dixon > suugaku.co.uk > > 2A9A 4117 > DA96 D18A > 8A7B B0D2 > A30E BF25 > F290 A8AA > > -- kind regards, Majid Hussain ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo accessibility re i'm blind, 2020-04-22 12:45 ` Majid Hussain @ 2020-04-22 12:49 ` Majid Hussain 2020-04-22 13:32 ` Mark Knecht 1 sibling, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Majid Hussain @ 2020-04-22 12:49 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-user hey, sorry for being spammy, what desktop enviroment is used on the live dvd iso? gnome? mate? does that have orca on it? note, speech-dispatcher and espeak-ng are required for things to function, with pulse audio, Majid On 22/04/2020, Majid Hussain <mhussaincov93@gmail.com> wrote: > hi there, > now er days, the mate desktop is considderd very accessible, > compared to gnome, > orca is the screen reader used when a gui is launched, > espeakup is the screen reader that is used on the tty before xorg and > friends are launched, > it's what debian uses on the net install image, > hence me asking if espeakup would be able to be added to an iso image? > unless there's away of building your own iso image from a non gentoo > system? > Majid > > On 22/04/2020, Ashley Dixon <ash@suugaku.co.uk> wrote: >>> i'm blind and wanted to get started with gentoo. >>> what's accessibility like? >>> is there speech via orca the screen reader or sound on the minimal iso >>> via espeakup provided? >>> I red this document, >>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Accessibility >>> which seembs to be up-to-date, is there a update on this? >> >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 01:04:48PM +0100, Majid Hussain wrote: >>> hi there, >> >> Hi Majid, I hope you're well. >> >> Have you visited [1] ? It is a community of Linux-focused >> blind >> and >> visually-impaired users, such as yourself, who have formed a community >> out >> of >> building accessibility software; primarily screen-readers [2]. >> >> You'd probably have the most difficulty on the initial set-up, as >> Gentoo >> installation takes place, almost entirely, in the tty, before you >> have >> any >> opportunity to install X. You could try running it in some sort of >> virtual >> machine and see if a screen-reader could parse the contents of the V.M.\ >> window. >> >>> I'm a complete newb with gentoo I would be greatful for your assistance >> >> How much prior Linux experience do you have ? Do you know of a >> screen-reader >> that works well once you have got to the point of installing a window >> manager ? >> >> This is the ONE situation under which I would recommend GNOME, as >> it >> is >> generally the best with built-in accessibility features [3]. >> Unfortunately, a >> lot of the more niche W.M.s (such as i3) require an incredible >> amount >> of >> tinkering (and often changes to the code-base) to introduce any >> sort >> of >> considering for accessibility. >> >>> I'm looking for an adventure. >> >> Don't worry, all Gentoo users get a hell of an experience, blind or >> otherwise. >> I'm sure you'll have an incredible amount of fun using this >> distro. >> ;-) >> >>> not sure if this was the correct place to post my question? >> >> gentoo-user is the general space for any user-land (non-developer) >> issues >> regarding Gentoo, so I doubt there are any problems with you posting >> here. >> Everything from this list (like all Gentoo lists) gets archived >> on-line >> by >> Gentoo at [4] and Google at [5], so in addition to solving your own >> problems, >> mailing lists provide the advantage of helping future users with similar >> issues. >> >> There is also the `gentoo-accessibility` list [6], but it's been dead >> for a >> while. >> >> (There are various other H.T.T.P.\ archiving services, such as M.Arc. >> [7], >> however Gentoo and Google are the most popular in search >> results.) >> >> Hope this helps, >> Ashley. >> >> [1] http://www.linux-speakup.org/ >> [2] http://www.linux-speakup.org/spkguide.txt >> [3] https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility >> [4] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/ >> [5] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/linux.gentoo.user >> [6] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-accessibility/ >> [7] https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-user >> >> -- >> >> Ashley Dixon >> suugaku.co.uk >> >> 2A9A 4117 >> DA96 D18A >> 8A7B B0D2 >> A30E BF25 >> F290 A8AA >> >> > > > -- > kind regards, > Majid Hussain > -- kind regards, Majid Hussain ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo accessibility re i'm blind, 2020-04-22 12:45 ` Majid Hussain 2020-04-22 12:49 ` Majid Hussain @ 2020-04-22 13:32 ` Mark Knecht 2020-04-22 14:16 ` Majid Hussain 1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Mark Knecht @ 2020-04-22 13:32 UTC (permalink / raw To: Gentoo User [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1075 bytes --] On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 5:45 AM Majid Hussain <mhussaincov93@gmail.com> wrote: > > hi there, > now er days, the mate desktop is considderd very accessible, > compared to gnome, > orca is the screen reader used when a gui is launched, > espeakup is the screen reader that is used on the tty before xorg and > friends are launched, > it's what debian uses on the net install image, > hence me asking if espeakup would be able to be added to an iso image? > unless there's away of building your own iso image from a non gentoo system? > Majid > Hi Majid, I know nothing about accessibility systems but the meat of installing Gentoo is essentially just you executing a bunch of instructions inside of a chroot. You can start with any distro that currently provides accessibility for you, set aside some disk space, chroot into it and then do the Gentoo install work there. If the distro you start with can read what's going on in that terminal as well as the install instructions off the web pages for this task then I think you should be good to go. Hope this helps, Mark [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1306 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo accessibility re i'm blind, 2020-04-22 13:32 ` Mark Knecht @ 2020-04-22 14:16 ` Majid Hussain 2020-04-22 14:32 ` Mark Knecht 0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Majid Hussain @ 2020-04-22 14:16 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-user hey there mark, you are ausom! it has cleared things up alot! on the chroot what doo I need? thanks, Majid Hussain On 22/04/2020, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 5:45 AM Majid Hussain <mhussaincov93@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> hi there, >> now er days, the mate desktop is considderd very accessible, >> compared to gnome, >> orca is the screen reader used when a gui is launched, >> espeakup is the screen reader that is used on the tty before xorg and >> friends are launched, >> it's what debian uses on the net install image, >> hence me asking if espeakup would be able to be added to an iso image? >> unless there's away of building your own iso image from a non gentoo > system? >> Majid >> > > Hi Majid, > I know nothing about accessibility systems but the meat of installing > Gentoo is essentially just you executing a bunch of instructions inside of > a chroot. You can start with any distro that currently provides > accessibility for you, set aside some disk space, chroot into it and then > do the Gentoo install work there. If the distro you start with can read > what's going on in that terminal as well as the install instructions off > the web pages for this task then I think you should be good to go. > > Hope this helps, > Mark > -- kind regards, Majid Hussain ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo accessibility re i'm blind, 2020-04-22 14:16 ` Majid Hussain @ 2020-04-22 14:32 ` Mark Knecht 2020-04-22 15:30 ` John Covici 0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Mark Knecht @ 2020-04-22 14:32 UTC (permalink / raw To: Gentoo User [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 3007 bytes --] On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 7:16 AM Majid Hussain <mhussaincov93@gmail.com> wrote: > > hey there mark, > you are ausom! > it has cleared things up alot! > on the chroot what doo I need? > thanks, > Majid Hussain > > On 22/04/2020, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 5:45 AM Majid Hussain <mhussaincov93@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> hi there, > >> now er days, the mate desktop is considderd very accessible, > >> compared to gnome, > >> orca is the screen reader used when a gui is launched, > >> espeakup is the screen reader that is used on the tty before xorg and > >> friends are launched, > >> it's what debian uses on the net install image, > >> hence me asking if espeakup would be able to be added to an iso image? > >> unless there's away of building your own iso image from a non gentoo > > system? > >> Majid > >> > > > > Hi Majid, > > I know nothing about accessibility systems but the meat of installing > > Gentoo is essentially just you executing a bunch of instructions inside of > > a chroot. You can start with any distro that currently provides > > accessibility for you, set aside some disk space, chroot into it and then > > do the Gentoo install work there. If the distro you start with can read > > what's going on in that terminal as well as the install instructions off > > the web pages for this task then I think you should be good to go. > > > > Hope this helps, > > Mark > > > > > -- > kind regards, > Majid Hussain Hi Majid, Again, I know nothing at all about how you deal with these tasks with blindness. A few things: 1) This list tends to a a bottom posting list. I don't think anyone is going to give you much grief about top posting. I certainly won't. 2) Fundamentally you just need to follow the isntall guide located here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64 Under the section "Installing Gentoo" there are a bunch of links. The first 5 are basically about getting a new box with no OS booting, setting up a network, basic stuff. You should have all of that from any OS you boot. TO BE CLEAR: you can do this on your existing system if it's Linux based and you have disk space available to play with. You can do this in a Virtualbox VM. There is NO requirement to use a new empty system. Find some disk space and follow the "Preparing the disks" and "Installing the Gentoo installation files" sections to map out the design of your system. Once that is done the section "Installing the Gentoo Base system" is where you chroot into what will eventually become your machine. At that point you are running Gentoo inside the chroot. You just build it p following the instructions. I hope this helps a little. Once you get started youo can ask questions here and I am certain you'll get responses. This is, for the 25 years I've been using Linux, the most helpful place on the web for both Gentoo and general Linux admin sorts of topics. Warm welcomes and best of luck. I'm excited to see how you do. Cheers, Mark [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 3820 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo accessibility re i'm blind, 2020-04-22 14:32 ` Mark Knecht @ 2020-04-22 15:30 ` John Covici 2020-04-22 15:38 ` Ashley Dixon 0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: John Covici @ 2020-04-22 15:30 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-user On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 10:32:12 -0400, Mark Knecht wrote: > > [1 <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>] > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 7:16 AM Majid Hussain <mhussaincov93@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > hey there mark, > > you are ausom! > > it has cleared things up alot! > > on the chroot what doo I need? > > thanks, > > Majid Hussain > > > > On 22/04/2020, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 5:45 AM Majid Hussain <mhussaincov93@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > >> > > >> hi there, > > >> now er days, the mate desktop is considderd very accessible, > > >> compared to gnome, > > >> orca is the screen reader used when a gui is launched, > > >> espeakup is the screen reader that is used on the tty before xorg and > > >> friends are launched, > > >> it's what debian uses on the net install image, > > >> hence me asking if espeakup would be able to be added to an iso image? > > >> unless there's away of building your own iso image from a non gentoo > > > system? > > >> Majid > > >> > > > > > > Hi Majid, > > > I know nothing about accessibility systems but the meat of installing > > > Gentoo is essentially just you executing a bunch of instructions inside > of > > > a chroot. You can start with any distro that currently provides > > > accessibility for you, set aside some disk space, chroot into it and > then > > > do the Gentoo install work there. If the distro you start with can read > > > what's going on in that terminal as well as the install instructions off > > > the web pages for this task then I think you should be good to go. > > > > > > Hope this helps, > > > Mark > > > > > > > > > -- > > kind regards, > > Majid Hussain > > Hi Majid, > Again, I know nothing at all about how you deal with these tasks with > blindness. A few things: > > 1) This list tends to a a bottom posting list. I don't think anyone is > going to give you much grief about top posting. I certainly won't. > > 2) Fundamentally you just need to follow the isntall guide located here: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64 > > Under the section "Installing Gentoo" there are a bunch of links. The first > 5 are basically about getting a new box with no OS booting, setting up a > network, basic stuff. You should have all of that from any OS you boot. TO > BE CLEAR: you can do this on your existing system if it's Linux based and > you have disk space available to play with. You can do this in a Virtualbox > VM. There is NO requirement to use a new empty system. Find some disk space > and follow the "Preparing the disks" and "Installing the Gentoo > installation files" sections to map out the design of your system. Once > that is done the section "Installing the Gentoo Base system" is where you > chroot into what will eventually become your machine. At that point you are > running Gentoo inside the chroot. You just build it p following the > instructions. > > I hope this helps a little. Once you get started youo can ask questions > here and I am certain you'll get responses. This is, for the 25 years I've > been using Linux, the most helpful place on the web for both Gentoo and > general Linux admin sorts of topics. > > Warm welcomes and best of luck. I'm excited to see how you do. I use gentoo with speakup (with a hardware synth) gnome and orca all the time and it works well. I compile my kernels and have speakup built in so that I can get the earliest possible speech, but you may not want to do this. My system is more complicated since I use zfs, but that is the great thing about gentoo, you get lots of choices. So, if you like mate, you can use that, if you like gnome you can use that, etc. Gnome requires you to use systemd, so be warned. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una covici@ccs.covici.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo accessibility re i'm blind, 2020-04-22 15:30 ` John Covici @ 2020-04-22 15:38 ` Ashley Dixon 0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Ashley Dixon @ 2020-04-22 15:38 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-user [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 463 bytes --] On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 11:30:01AM -0400, John Covici wrote: > Gnome requires you to use systemd, so be warned. Small addendum: GNOME, from version 3.3, can, technically, be used without systemd. See [1] and [2]. [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GNOME/GNOME_Without_systemd/Gentoo [2] https://github.com/dantrell/gentoo-project-gnome-without-systemd -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 833 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo accessibility re i'm blind, 2020-04-22 12:28 ` Ashley Dixon 2020-04-22 12:45 ` Majid Hussain @ 2020-04-22 17:15 ` Ian Zimmerman 2020-04-22 19:14 ` Ashley Dixon 1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Ian Zimmerman @ 2020-04-22 17:15 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-user On 2020-04-22 13:28, Ashley Dixon wrote: > This is the ONE situation under which I would recommend GNOME, as it > is generally the best with built-in accessibility features [3]. I don't know about that. Mouse Keys was broken for at least 2 Fedora releases (it would do the moves but not the clicks) and my bug about that was handled in the typical GNOME/Fedora fashion, ie. ignored until they could close it with reference to the next version. > lot of the more niche W.M.s (such as i3) require an incredible amount > of tinkering (and often changes to the code-base) to introduce any > sort of considering for accessibility. Maybe wrt visual handicaps you are right, but wrt keyboard access to everything that "normal" users do with the mouse, I violently disagree. I use bspwm now and it is the _very best_ interface I ever had, freeing me from the authoritarian rodent for hours at a time. -- Ian ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo accessibility re i'm blind, 2020-04-22 17:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman @ 2020-04-22 19:14 ` Ashley Dixon 0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Ashley Dixon @ 2020-04-22 19:14 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-user [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 646 bytes --] On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 10:15:31AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Maybe wrt visual handicaps you are right, but wrt keyboard access to > everything that "normal" users do with the mouse, I violently disagree. Ian, I'm sorry I have invoked feelings of such violence. I did mean for visual handicaps. Even for able users, such as myself, we often make a choice not to use the mouse as it is often less efficient than using the keyboard, so I wouldn't really classify the latter as an accessibility feature. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 833 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo accessibility re i'm blind, 2020-04-22 12:04 [gentoo-user] gentoo accessibility re i'm blind, Majid Hussain 2020-04-22 12:28 ` Ashley Dixon @ 2020-04-26 16:13 ` William Hubbs 1 sibling, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: William Hubbs @ 2020-04-26 16:13 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-user [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 983 bytes --] Hi Majid, On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 01:04:48PM +0100, Majid Hussain wrote: > hi there, > i'm blind and wanted to get started with gentoo. > what's accessibility like? > is there speech via orca the screen reader or sound on the minimal iso > via espeakup provided? > I red this document, > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Accessibility > which seembs to be up-to-date, is there a update on this? > not sure if this was the correct place to post my question? > i'm a complete newb with gentoo I would be greatfull for your assistence, > i'm looking for an adventure. Yes, speakup and espeakup are available on the iso, and orca is available in gnome. I haven't used gnome myself (I mostly use the commandline via ssh) so I can't comment a whole lot about orca. We also have brltty and emacspeak available in the repository. I don't really use them personally so I haven't looked at them in some time. Please feel free to ask any questions and welcome to Gentoo. :-) William [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 195 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
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