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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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
