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> i'm blind and wanted to get started with gentoo. |
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> what's accessibility like? |
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> is there speech via orca the screen reader or sound on the minimal iso |
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> via espeakup provided? |
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> I red this document, |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Accessibility |
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> which seembs to be up-to-date, is there a update on this? |
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 01:04:48PM +0100, Majid Hussain wrote: |
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> hi there, |
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Hi Majid, I hope you're well. |
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Have you visited [1] ? It is a community of Linux-focused blind and |
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visually-impaired users, such as yourself, who have formed a community out of |
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building accessibility software; primarily screen-readers [2]. |
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You'd probably have the most difficulty on the initial set-up, as Gentoo |
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installation takes place, almost entirely, in the tty, before you have any |
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opportunity to install X. You could try running it in some sort of virtual |
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machine and see if a screen-reader could parse the contents of the V.M.\ window. |
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> I'm a complete newb with gentoo I would be greatful for your assistance |
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How much prior Linux experience do you have ? Do you know of a screen-reader |
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that works well once you have got to the point of installing a window manager ? |
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This is the ONE situation under which I would recommend GNOME, as it is |
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generally the best with built-in accessibility features [3]. Unfortunately, a |
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lot of the more niche W.M.s (such as i3) require an incredible amount of |
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tinkering (and often changes to the code-base) to introduce any sort of |
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considering for accessibility. |
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> I'm looking for an adventure. |
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Don't worry, all Gentoo users get a hell of an experience, blind or otherwise. |
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I'm sure you'll have an incredible amount of fun using this distro. ;-) |
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> not sure if this was the correct place to post my question? |
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gentoo-user is the general space for any user-land (non-developer) issues |
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regarding Gentoo, so I doubt there are any problems with you posting here. |
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Everything from this list (like all Gentoo lists) gets archived on-line by |
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Gentoo at [4] and Google at [5], so in addition to solving your own problems, |
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mailing lists provide the advantage of helping future users with similar issues. |
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There is also the `gentoo-accessibility` list [6], but it's been dead for a |
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while. |
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(There are various other H.T.T.P.\ archiving services, such as M.Arc. [7], |
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however Gentoo and Google are the most popular in search results.) |
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Hope this helps, |
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Ashley. |
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[1] http://www.linux-speakup.org/ |
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[2] http://www.linux-speakup.org/spkguide.txt |
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[3] https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility |
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[4] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/ |
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[5] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/linux.gentoo.user |
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[6] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-accessibility/ |
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[7] https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-user |
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