Accessibility of installing Distros?

[Linux for blind general discussion]

If you install espeak-ng in extra packages then in the chroot environment:
sysctl disable fenrir
then sysctl enable espeak
before rebooting that should at least put an end to fenrir eventually.
The fenrir speech speed is too fast; it can be adjusted downward but I
think never ought to have been set that fast for installation or
post-install use.  Maybe speech-rate=0.5 would be better and at the speed
espeak uses by default.


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

> The issue is that it's already on a desktop, usually Mate.
>
> If I install it again, I'm installing it console only, and then building it as
> I see fit, which would be with ratpoison only.
>
> Will probably go to Arch directly anyway. Why get something that, firstly
> speaks with a Screen reader I never bothered to learn, since Speakup works
> well enough for my needs, secondly speaks so darn fast no human can understand
> the thing, especially if, like me you can hardly hear anything anymore anyway?
>
> I can build my system in vanilla Arch as well as with anything else. I, for
> example wouldn't install Firefox at all, but probably one of the Chromium
> based browsers plus elinks for when I'm beeing lazy and want to stay on a
> console.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Brandt Steenkamp
>
> Sent from the Slint console using Alpine
>
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 13:41:19 -0500
> > From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> > To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> > Subject: Re: Accessibility of installing Distros?
> >
> > 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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