Gentoo Archives: gentoo-accessibility

From: "Mirabella
To: gentoo-accessibility@××××××××××××.org
Subject: [gentoo-accessibility] orca and gnome.
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:14:54
Message-Id: 6215401E01247448A306C54F499111F202D0FA03@WSMSG2103V.srv.dir.telstra.com
1 Hi All.
2
3 I am looking at various distros and trying to find one that offers a
4 good range of accessibility support for both the console and X. Ubuntu
5 seems to have made a lot of progress in X, but has (at the moment) lost
6 a bit of momentum re the console. So have a lot of other distros due to
7 all sorts of reasons relating to the kernel etc. But I do recall really
8 liking Gentoo when I tried it out last year (releases 2006.1). SO was
9 wondering where things were at re accessibility support in Gentoo.
10
11 e.g. I have been trying out a Ubuntu 7.10 Live CD and installation, and
12 find that the default system seems to provide gnome with Orca which
13 works pretty well all things considered. I also understand this is the
14 case with Debian unstable once packages are updated.
15 SO I was wondering if anyone has managed to get a Gentoo installation up
16 to the point of running Orca in Gnome, and if so, have you been able to
17 do it with a minimum of fuss (e.g. something like emerge orca and it
18 just works?).
19
20 Mat.

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Re: [gentoo-accessibility] orca and gnome. Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o>