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From: Majid Hussain <mhussaincov93@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo accessibility re i'm blind,
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 14:16:16
Message-Id: CAKmxv4x25kQiAQ6GUvAxM18boN4sRKGPqX9=HKK_XYnpRV+jUA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo accessibility re i'm blind, by Mark Knecht
1 hey there mark,
2 you are ausom!
3 it has cleared things up alot!
4 on the chroot what doo I need?
5 thanks,
6 Majid Hussain
7
8 On 22/04/2020, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
9 > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 5:45 AM Majid Hussain <mhussaincov93@×××××.com>
10 > wrote:
11 >>
12 >> hi there,
13 >> now er days, the mate desktop is considderd very accessible,
14 >> compared to gnome,
15 >> orca is the screen reader used when a gui is launched,
16 >> espeakup is the screen reader that is used on the tty before xorg and
17 >> friends are launched,
18 >> it's what debian uses on the net install image,
19 >> hence me asking if espeakup would be able to be added to an iso image?
20 >> unless there's away of building your own iso image from a non gentoo
21 > system?
22 >> Majid
23 >>
24 >
25 > Hi Majid,
26 > I know nothing about accessibility systems but the meat of installing
27 > Gentoo is essentially just you executing a bunch of instructions inside of
28 > a chroot. You can start with any distro that currently provides
29 > accessibility for you, set aside some disk space, chroot into it and then
30 > do the Gentoo install work there. If the distro you start with can read
31 > what's going on in that terminal as well as the install instructions off
32 > the web pages for this task then I think you should be good to go.
33 >
34 > Hope this helps,
35 > Mark
36 >
37
38
39 --
40 kind regards,
41 Majid Hussain

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Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo accessibility re i'm blind, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>