Hi Al, just a quick shot: I think it would be very easy to write a little bash script, which uncomment the universe line in source.list. I'm not familar with the problems of blind users, but I think, the next problem is how to access this script. Or maybe it isn't problem!?
Thilo Am Donnerstag, 30. März 2006 20:03 schrieb Al Puzzuoli: > Hi folks, > > I'm really glad to see that Orca has made it into the list of available > packages for Dapper; However, unless I'm missing something, the fact > that it lives in universe presents yet another one of those > accessibility paradoxes we always seem to be dealing with: Let us > assume that as a blind user, I am presented with a machine running a > fresh install of Dapper. What's the easiest way to get Orca up and > running? It's great that it is available via apt-get, but of course, > in order to get it, I would already have to have some form of access in > order to uncomment universe. This issue is alleviated somewhat by the > fact that at present, Gnopernicus, Brltty, and OpenSsh-server are > available from main; However ideally,an end user should have the > ability to install their screen reader of choice with one or at most > two, relatively simple commands. > > --Al -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
