Re: Exim4 in Debian?

2024-04-28 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
-Original Message- From: Samuel Thibault To: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Exim4 in Debian? Date: 04/26/24 13:51:02 Chime Hart, le ven. 26 avril 2024 10:23:33 -0700, a ecrit: > I am noticing here in Debian SID that packages I use > regularly are mysteriously

Re: What's Wrong with this Mirror?

2022-10-24 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 10/24/22, Chime Hart wrote: > Well, thank you Jordan: I am actually either hoping some1 will fix that > mirror > or suggest a Debian Multimedia mirror which is current-and-working. Thanks > again. Just thinking out loud here: If it's something that you don't mind sharing publicly, what

Re: debian academy initiative

2022-09-06 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 9/6/22, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Jude DaShiell, le mar. 06 sept. 2022 19:05:47 -0400, a ecrit: >> Is it appropriate or does debian-accessibility already have a debian >> academy online training course to educate on a11Y and how that connects >> to >> debian? > > There aren't such programs in

Marked For Autoremoval: How can we help? :)

2022-05-28 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
Happy Day! Testing and autoremovals got a quick brush-by today (2022.05.28) over at Debian-User. That just caused me to pull all those emails back out of trash from May 26. There were 71 that hit my own inbox. As soon as I saw espeakup, this felt like something critical. Upon second look today I

Re: Bug#1007106: reportbug: please make the meaning of the a11y tag clearer

2022-03-14 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/14/22, john doe wrote: > On 3/14/2022 12:53 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Simon McVittie wrote: >>> Can anyone suggest a wording that makes the intention of the tag >>> clearer, >>> without "othering" the people who particularly need bugs with this tag >>> to >>> be fixed? I've

Re: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-12 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ity. PS For the unofficial record, I'm in the camp that says concentrating forever limited volunteer developer manpower on fewer projects seems like a good way to go. In fact, the word "humane" comes to mind. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: firmware-11.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso Install

2021-08-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
second aside. The last time I had problems, I renamed it with an apparent associated error that's not ringing a bell now. I attached "ipv4stdinError" (ipv4 stdin error) to that file instead of the date. Leaving that here in case it makes sense as a login error causative to Samuel or others. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Raspberry pi os accessibility

2020-07-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
can likely also be useful back over here at Debian. Hope that helps at least a little. I just registered over there at Raspberry Pi. This topic has been on my own shortlist of new things I'd like to test drive. Happy 30th Anniversary of the ADA (Americans with Disability Act) for those in the US AND

Re: Some small linux device

2020-07-07 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ontact made. My experience is that a cooling pad with operating fans is about the most effective way to go, WHEN those fans work. Just thinking out loud because I have full empathy. Good luck! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: local repostory doesn't show up (synaptic or apt)

2020-06-13 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ccessibility list which really is specifically about figuring out accessibility issues that block users' usage of Debian. There's a different list where I've seen similar local (onsite) repository questions to yours. That's debian-user: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ Best wishes in finding an answer..

Re: Console Font for Lower Vision People

2020-01-07 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
drive shows that they might help someone out here.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Text installer irritation

2019-10-30 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
any kind of boot up issues. Switching over to a one finger hunt-and-peck typing style mitigates that one, LOL! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Fwd: installing speakup (etc) in a VirtualBox VM

2019-10-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
apt/sources.list or similar* will need to reflect that. "apt-get update" will have needed to be run, also, to ensure everything is current information. If you already knew some of that in advance, my apologies. Never hurts to have it on a list for newbies, newcomers. Have fun! * E.g.

Re: Playing midi files

2019-08-03 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
MIDI/MPEG karaoke player." That sounds FUN. Am noticing that the word "sequencer" received a few references. I don't know if that implies "thus plays midi files" because I don't have anything to test drive that theory. Am mentioning it in case that helps Users perform very targeted searches for this topic. Hope that helps someone out here.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Things to cover in my bits from the DPL talk at Debconf

2019-07-09 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
an-Publicity list accepts posts from non-subscribers.. Just thinking out loud.. :) PS Afterthought: What about "Hurd"? That just hit my radar in some bit of chatter or another during the past week: Debian GNU/Hurd 2019 released!; 2019.07.07 https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2019/07/msg

Re: [RFC] Changing the default cursor on the Linux console?

2019-06-10 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
g to a point of being almost "irritating". My ultimate take on this is that it's much more *fair* for me to have to track down and manually toggle that feature ON in a new setup than it is for someone with epilepsy to have to risk being detrimentally triggered if that feature was instead turned on and thus flashing by default. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: making an accessible boot disk

2019-05-31 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
fore internal hard drives.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: making an accessible boot disk

2019-05-31 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
d a step-by-step that showed what was needed at each point for each "tab" or "page" that many or most BIOS have these days. It's... sad that the very long existing BIOS remains inaccessible to the point that a User has to resort to taking a computer apart to accomplish the sam

Re: making an accessible boot disk

2019-05-31 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ps, forgot to remove AGAIN" category a number of times. *grin* Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Strange behaviour of gnupg in Debian Stretch

2019-04-10 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
his command used to respond instantly for you and now there appears to be that gap in time before the command completes? That's as much as I can help with it. I'm just thinking that your answer might help more knowledgeable people help you. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: [d-i] language selection bad for non English speakers

2019-02-26 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 2/27/19, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 2/26/19, Samuel Henrique wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm just passing along feedback that I received from a Brazilian user who >> could not install Debian using speech synthesis, he was using the latest >> stable ISO (but this

Re: [d-i] language selection bad for non English speakers

2019-02-26 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ay "M - Z" or "M to Z" (or even both, perhaps with one in parentheses) along with the '+' help any? Just thinking out loud... after pondering for a few seconds. This is a toughy. You'd have to find something universally translatable for those very seconds in Time... before Users get in

Re: How to write in Chinese ?

2018-11-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
be on-topic tech posts for those lists (i.e. lists still appear active instead of just being sp-am bait): https://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-chinese/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-chinese-big5/ Hope those help somehow. Good luck with your project! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking R

Re: Introduction and using Orca with Debian sound systems

2018-03-18 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
hole system. I consciously worry about users with disabilities possibly not catching that particular point more than almost any other thing within Debian because recovering would be difficult if too many packages ever did get accidentally deleted.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

ADA Center Accessible Technology: PDF Accessibility: Exploring Tools and Solutions

2018-01-09 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
and related Linux based packages. For ease of forwarding, the original email is attached in its entirety just below my email signature. #ThankYou all for all the great work you do! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with fave keywords like.. usability

Re: spd-conf worked in debian 8, but not debian 9/stretchX

2017-08-02 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
now their method for doing the same. As well known as aptitude and synaptic are, though, there must surely be related documentation on how to perform the above or similar via those alternatives to apt-get. Good luck! Cindy -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: GNOME 3.24 a11y updates

2017-06-26 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
; test well. What does it take to test that? I'm not in a place to do it this time at this second, but I decided to ask anyway. Maybe I can help in the future... or maybe knowing what's needed this time will help someone else consider stepping up for you today... Thanks in advance if you have a

Bug#859926: speechd-up: fails to install

2017-04-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
have successfully, initially installed with no complaints (via "apt-get install speechd-up"). Another factor in my install attempt is that mine was a brand new install. There was no residual "clutter" of past installs that could potentially also be causing unknown complications. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Bug#859926: speechd-up: fails to install

2017-04-17 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
; feeling it is interfering with the script and not doing what I read. >> >> I have no clue where to find the input (the service file?) that systemd >> is actually using yet. This is all new to me. #ThankYou for the work you all do! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: looking at debian

2017-02-18 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
s, I *am* describing a different, extremely minimal kind of Debian installation so it might be set up that way because so much is missing from the start with a debootstrap'ed install.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: audio levels lost on reboot

2016-10-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
un so I opened Audio Mixer then ran "ps -aux" (as regular user). It showed me I have xfce4-mixer running as that generically named "Audio Mixer" under the Applications menu. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: xfce terminal?

2016-10-16 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 10/16/16, mattias <mjonsson1...@gmail.com> wrote: > hwwat name? > > in mate it are named mate-terminal Hi, Mattias.. I just tried "xfce4-terminal", and it worked. Hope that helped. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Debian potential user, a question or two

2016-09-21 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
o. I've never been successful there and have seen a lot of others have trouble with it, too. That's why it's also the last thing I suggest. *grin* Good luck! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Bug#800602: Lightdm: orca speaks characters while typing the password.

2015-10-20 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
something that was already addressed by Developers that could help short track Debian's fix. As has been discussed already, this is definitely a high security risk for Debian Users with visual impairments. I wish I understood Debian's inside coding more so I could be in there helping you all nail it down. Good luck! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Bug#800602: Lightdm: orca speaks characters while typing the password.

2015-10-18 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ing Samuel's hearing asterisks while Raphael's hearing the actual password.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *

Re: Presentation wanted about accessibility on Linux

2009-03-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/23/09, Thomas Koch tho...@koch.ro wrote: there'll be a BarCamp[1] in northern Germany (Bremen) on may, 23th. The BarCamp happens at the same time as the biggest german church meeting (Kirchentag). The main point of the BarCamp is to inform peoples from church related organisations about