hi there, now er days, the mate desktop is considderd very accessible, compared to gnome, orca is the screen reader used when a gui is launched, espeakup is the screen reader that is used on the tty before xorg and friends are launched, it's what debian uses on the net install image, hence me asking if espeakup would be able to be added to an iso image? unless there's away of building your own iso image from a non gentoo system? Majid
On 22/04/2020, Ashley Dixon <a...@suugaku.co.uk> wrote: >> i'm blind and wanted to get started with gentoo. >> what's accessibility like? >> is there speech via orca the screen reader or sound on the minimal iso >> via espeakup provided? >> I red this document, >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Accessibility >> which seembs to be up-to-date, is there a update on this? > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 01:04:48PM +0100, Majid Hussain wrote: >> hi there, > > Hi Majid, I hope you're well. > > Have you visited [1] ? It is a community of Linux-focused blind > and > visually-impaired users, such as yourself, who have formed a community out > of > building accessibility software; primarily screen-readers [2]. > > You'd probably have the most difficulty on the initial set-up, as > Gentoo > installation takes place, almost entirely, in the tty, before you have > any > opportunity to install X. You could try running it in some sort of > virtual > machine and see if a screen-reader could parse the contents of the V.M.\ > window. > >> I'm a complete newb with gentoo I would be greatful for your assistance > > How much prior Linux experience do you have ? Do you know of a > screen-reader > that works well once you have got to the point of installing a window > manager ? > > This is the ONE situation under which I would recommend GNOME, as it > is > generally the best with built-in accessibility features [3]. > Unfortunately, a > lot of the more niche W.M.s (such as i3) require an incredible amount > of > tinkering (and often changes to the code-base) to introduce any sort > of > considering for accessibility. > >> I'm looking for an adventure. > > Don't worry, all Gentoo users get a hell of an experience, blind or > otherwise. > I'm sure you'll have an incredible amount of fun using this distro. > ;-) > >> not sure if this was the correct place to post my question? > > gentoo-user is the general space for any user-land (non-developer) > issues > regarding Gentoo, so I doubt there are any problems with you posting > here. > Everything from this list (like all Gentoo lists) gets archived on-line > by > Gentoo at [4] and Google at [5], so in addition to solving your own > problems, > mailing lists provide the advantage of helping future users with similar > issues. > > There is also the `gentoo-accessibility` list [6], but it's been dead > for a > while. > > (There are various other H.T.T.P.\ archiving services, such as M.Arc. > [7], > however Gentoo and Google are the most popular in search > results.) > > Hope this helps, > Ashley. > > [1] http://www.linux-speakup.org/ > [2] http://www.linux-speakup.org/spkguide.txt > [3] https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility > [4] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/ > [5] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/linux.gentoo.user > [6] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-accessibility/ > [7] https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-user > > -- > > Ashley Dixon > suugaku.co.uk > > 2A9A 4117 > DA96 D18A > 8A7B B0D2 > A30E BF25 > F290 A8AA > > -- kind regards, Majid Hussain
