On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 10:09:00PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > missing lots of accessibility-related material. > I've installed several other versions of Linux before and got them > accessible using material found mostly on the internet for instructions. > The first one was RedHat 5.0 when that was a current distribution. > After that, slackware, debian, fedora ubuntu arch-linux coconut and jenux. > Anyone interested could do a youtube search for gentoo, and I'm pretty > sure you'll find I wasn't the only potential installer who ran into all > manner of unexpected behavior.
YouTube probably isn't the best source of information for technical Linux documentation. Asking here on the mailing list is always good; the appropriate IRC channels can be helpful, too. Gentoo does not hold your hand and provide a pretty GUI for every potential option and use-case, because its range of target consumers is far too broad. The "all manner of unexpected behaviour" you're encountering is just the feeling of having to do some of the heavy-lifting yourself, which is certainly not a negative remark on Gentoo! If you have a very specific and niche issue, you can also reach out directly to the Gentoo Accessibility Project in different forms (#gentoo-accessibility; accessibil...@gentoo.org; gentoo-accessibil...@lists.gentoo.org) [1]. > An A gentoo accessibility install podcast ought to have been available for > this distribution many years ago. A podcast for all accessibility use-cases in Gentoo would, once again, be far too broad and help only a minority of potentially interested viewers. A dedicated espeak(up) page on the Gentoo wiki would be great, however. I was rather surprised to see that one didn't exist. > A feature that would be useful for menuconfig would be the ability once a > search is done to jump onto the desired search item directly (if the item > were available at all). > Maybe that's communicated by colors, I don't know. Currently, the closest thing menuconfig provides is detailing the location of the `CONFIG_` option, in relation to the graphical menus one must navigate. Sometimes it's just easier to edit your `.config` manually; menuconfig can be terribly slow and cumbersome when you're only searching the option titles. [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Accessibility -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA
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