Editing the Fedora Help documentation

2021-07-16 Thread Devin Prater via users
Hi all. I’m a person who is blind, and have used Fedora off and on for years, but may have found my forever home in Fedora, after finding Arch to be too advanced for me, but Debian to have too old of packages, especially in regards to accessibility. Now, I looked at the accessibility parts of Fe

Re: Interfaces

2020-06-08 Thread Devin Prater via users
You know, the fact about needing to remember how you get somewhere is interesting to me. I could “see” that as a mouse user, having to remember visual interfaces and where to click when could get confusing. Perhaps we blind people have our own little command line, even in visual interfaces. We u

Re: Interfaces

2020-06-08 Thread Devin Prater via users
Many blind people use the command line on Linux, mainly because the GUI isn’t all that great with a screen reader. Although web services can be hard to use, especially when TUI’s with “fancy” use of Unicode box drawing characters make things overly verbose and complex. But there is this thing wh

Fedora Mate accessibility

2020-03-11 Thread Devin Prater via users
Hi all. I just tried installing Fedora Mate into a virtual machine, using VmWare for accessibility reasons. I am blind, so use the Orca screen reader . During installation, Orca works fine, although I had to turn up the sound volume using AlsaMixer in mate-terminal