Accessibility of installing Distros?

Linux for blind general discussion blinux-list at redhat.com
Fri Feb 18 18:41:19 UTC 2022


Have you tried running startx to turn orca on?  You may find that works.


On Fri, 18 Feb 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Sometimes it would finish the install, then reboot, and come up speaking with
> Fenrir with a very annoying voice, especially if you, like me is legally
> deafblind, then after typing your username and password, Fenrir would just die
> and you are stuck, I know it's a desktop environment, but nothing turns orca
> on.
>
>
> So much for an accessible distro.
>
>
> This is why I love Slint. It does exactly what "you", tell it to do, not the
> dev.
>
>
> No disrespect to Mr. Nash, I'm sure he's a perfectly nice guy, not that I've
> ever spoken to him though.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Brandt Steenkamp
>
> Sent from the Slint machine using Thunderbird
>
> On 2022/02/18 17:10, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > Makes at least two of us.  The installer always found itself looping and
> > repeating failed package retrieval.
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2/17/22 13:12, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> >> I could never get Jenux to work correctly on my setup.
> >
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