[Testers wanted before the official release] Slint64-4.2.1 release candidate is accessible.

[Linux for blind general discussion]

I just tested the upgraded version of firefox available on the slint 
repository today and found it very broken.  What happened once I hit 
enter to accept firefox as default browser was a welcome to firefox 
message I heard so I tried navigating with keys like tab and the tab key 
acted like the tab key got broken.  This was also very much the case 
with the rest of the keys on my keyboard including orca flat review.  I 
powered down and restarted after getting out of there so firefox-safe 
may be good for a while longer.

On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 07:49:53
> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Testers wanted before the official release] Slint64-4.2.1
>     release candidate is accessible.
> 
> Hello,
> thanks for testing.
>
> Le 09/10/2017 ? 01:20, Linux for blind general discussion a ?crit :
>> I have this version of slint installed and talking in console mode so
>> far.
>
> Good. Please report any issue.
>
>> I'll test the graphical user interface after doing some 
>> post-install and getting slapt-get up and working.
>> I need to testnetwork connection too. 
>
> Well, indeed slapt-get's usage needs an active network connection.
> Assuming a wired one, NetworkManager should work out of the box.
> For a wireless one, I have only used the GUI applet yet, will try the
> other tools to figure out which are accessible. But maybe you already
> know that. 
> 
> Then, for slapt-get to work with the right sources of packages you need
> to tentatively edit as root the file /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc
> modifying this line:
> SOURCE=http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-14.2/:PREFERRED
> so it become
> SOURCE=http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-14.2/:PREFERRED
> This is because Slint64-14.2.1 being not yet officially released its
> packages are in a specific repository for at the moment.
>
> Then just type as root:
> slapt-get --add-keys
> slapt-get -u # or slapt-get --update
>
>> From time to time, run:
> slapt-get -u
> slapt-get --upgrade
> the update notification icon of then panel being probably not
> accessible. As usual to know more:
> man slapt-get 
>
>> With slint, the dvd runs once installed for a while then stops.
>> I hit enter once then slint found my speakers and in a little bit
>> started talking.
>
> Do you mean that when the bootloader is ready (after having rebooted
> with the DVD inserted) you don't hear a beep? Maybe you machine doesn't
> provide the "beep"?
>
>> Once it was installed with lilo, I had to hit enter after boot for the
>> system to come up and start talking.  This is for those that never
>> installed a slackware system before so you know to not give up at
>> those apparent stop points.
>
> Yes, by default the system starts after a 2 minute delay unless set
> otherwise in /etc/lilo.conf (and if EFI is used there is no time out at
> all so pressing [Enter] is mandatory to boot).
>
> Maybe I should reduce this delay when using lilo to 10 or 15 seconds? 
>
> Thanks for pointing this out. I will mention that in this file:
> http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-testing/iso/ACCESSIBILITY
>
> Great having accessible slackware back and more accessible than original
> slackware ended up being since slint works with sound cards for speech.
>
> Thanks for the encouragement and please give feedback about speech
> in graphical environments when you can.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Didier Spaier
>
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