Re: a question about blind friendly linux distributions
Tward, I absolutely agree with your above phrase:
The problem is a new user doesn't know where to begin or what to do to get Linux to work the way he or she wants. that is where access really breaks down because there is no access for dummies type book or tutorial that lays it all out for a new user.
Orca offers some learning messages and I think it should be more acurate, but I'm aware that differences between desktops would make this a lot hard.
Another thing I've seen for many distributions is that instead of documenting Orca's behavior and how tos on a particular distro's documentation, the user is sent to the generic Orca documentation. Although it is probably no problem for experienced users, I think that new users may want to know the way Orca behaves on most relevant parts of the main shell of the distro he or she chose. In other words, documentation of many distros seem to be d
isconnected from Orca, since the links about Universal Access (the case of Ubuntu, for example) simply send people to the generic help: that help is suited for getting information about specific questions of the screen reader such as setting, pronunciation dictionaries, braille display drivers and scripting, but it isn't the most useful for a person to know the way of applying the tricks described on introductory guides of his/her distro, explained assuming the user will not use any assistive technology.
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