Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo accessibility re i'm blind,

[Majid Hussain <mhussaincov93@gmail.com>]

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
>


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kind regards,
Majid Hussain