Accessibility of installing Distros?

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Going off of vanilla Arch here but it uses espeakup by default as the 
speech synth and method in the accessible boot (which is down arrow when 
booting off a stick or CD) and it's easy to understand. I get it. Some 
people can do stupidly high speech rates. But not everyone can. I've 
left espeakup alone on my box and it works pretty well, I can adjust it 
easily and it's easy to understand and follow along with. Even at top 
speed it's not insanely fast

Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> 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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