On Sun, 11 Oct 2020, Ashley Dixon wrote: > Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 07:30:19 > From: Ashley Dixon <a...@suugaku.co.uk> > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo handbook > > 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 > >
-- This problem needs handling by gentoo accessibility project and I'll take it their. If this problem gets solved, I'll probably make a podcast at least for speakup and maybe orca if I get that installed and working. It won't be of much use to gentoo, but the blinux-list may find it of interest.
