trisquel 5.5 accessibility
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Hi all,
My name is Simon and i am from Austria.
I am new to this list and Trisquel.
I used Linux before in other distributions like Ubuntu and Debian.
As a blind user I tested the Trisquel 5.5 I18N daily snapshot DVD from
17 March 2012 on a VirtualBox virtual machine.
I thought i might not activate the 3d video acceleration in the VM
cause this often causes the system to switch to a different interface
which is often not that accessible.
Starting the system from the live DVD and then installing was no
problem cause Orca comes up talking automatically and also the
installation was quite standard so I have no comments about that.
After the installation was complete and i started the system i found
out that the login screen is not talking but that seems also to be the
case currently in Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04.
After the desktop was up and running i checked the whole system and
figured out that the system is, since i didn't enable 3d, using
gnome-classic as the interface which is using the gnome 2.x interface.
So that was accessible. I looked further to the system settings and
figured out that the language support section seems to be inaccessible
to orca. That might be a permissions problem i guess but i am not
sure.
I need to do further testing but thats what i found out so far in my
first minutes using Trisquel.
Greetings,
Simon
I am a member!
Hey Simon!
As another user of Trisquel's accessibility, I'm glad to hear from you,
as is the development crew, I'm sure. I don't think you need to worry
about the acceleration, as the classic view is the 'norm' for this
distro; if you were to enable 3d (assuming there's support for your
hardware), you wouldn't find yourself switched to Unity or Gnome Shell
without your consent:). I installed a 5.5 Beta on the 12th or 13th,
onto a netbook, and have upgraded orca and libreoffice for better
accessibility, especially to libreoffice calc, which I found almost
unusable in 3.4.. It looks like the remaining accessibility bugs are
those in Ubuntu or Debian packages, and not things Trisquel can fix. I
look forward to more observations from you, as you continue to use and
explore the Trisquel betas.
Cheers,
Dave
Hi Dave,
I might look for another distribution which can use gnome-classic if it
happens there. cause ubuntu now using unity you can't switch to
gnome-classic.
greetings,
simon
Am 19.03.2012 15:11, schrieb Dave Hunt:
> Hey Simon!
>
> As another user of Trisquel's accessibility, I'm glad to hear from you,
> as is the development crew, I'm sure. I don't think you need to worry
> about the acceleration, as the classic view is the 'norm' for this
> distro; if you were to enable 3d (assuming there's support for your
> hardware), you wouldn't find yourself switched to Unity or Gnome Shell
> without your consent:). I installed a 5.5 Beta on the 12th or 13th, onto
> a netbook, and have upgraded orca and libreoffice for better
> accessibility, especially to libreoffice calc, which I found almost
> unusable in 3.4.. It looks like the remaining accessibility bugs are
> those in Ubuntu or Debian packages, and not things Trisquel can fix. I
> look forward to more observations from you, as you continue to use and
> explore the Trisquel betas.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Dave
>
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