Manjaro linux

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Was that the gnome or mate?
For some reason, Manjaro install will not let me use orca.

> On May 12, 2020, at 1:14 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Last time I installed it, KaliLinux used espeak to install then once
> install had been done, orca was enabled.
> 
> On Tue, 12 May 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> 
>> Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 13:26:20
>> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: Manjaro linux
>> 
>> Hi Kyle.
>> 
>> Details of the problem you described here (in the context of Ubuntu-MATE):
>> 
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate/+bug/1874283
>> 
>> 12.05.20 19:58, Linux for blind general discussion ????:
>>> On the other hand, to my knowledge, there is no distro that uses Orca
>>>> to make a graphical installer accessible and that all distros that
>>>> have accessible installers utilize either a text-mode screen reader or
>>>> brltty to make a text-based installer accessible.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> This isn't the case at all. Ubuntu uses Orca with Ubiquity, which is
>>> completely accessible. I know, I just used it last week to install to a
>>> rather old laptop for a client. There is a little problem getting the
>>> installer working from the "Install Ubuntu 20.04" app icon on the MATE
>>> version, but opening a terminal and running
>>> 
>>> sudo -e ubiquity
>>> 
>>> from there should speak without any issues. I believe someone told me this
>>> method worked, and there's no reason I can see why it shouldn't work. I
>>> can't comment on how well it works now, but OpenSUSE used to have an
>>> installer that worked with Orca. Anakonda in Fedora also works with Orca,
>>> but you need to switch from Wayland to an X session in order to make it
>>> work. Not text mode, just X, which is no longer the default. In fact, of all
>>> the major distros currently available, I think Debian is the only one that
>>> uses a text-based installer with a text-mode screen reader. Well, there's
>>> Arch, but its installation process is 100% manual, it has no automated
>>> installer at all, so it really doesn't count. I do fully agree though that
>>> Manjaro is probably not the best choice, and not only because of the
>>> installer. That was actually the least of the problems that we who worked
>>> with the Sonar project had with Manjaro, mostly after installation.
>>> 
>>> ~Kyle
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