I may have found a fairly easy way to install ubuntu with orca
Hi, this is some info that I discovered by accident, but it may provide a way to install intrepid with orca. I didn't have time to test this, but will in the next few days. I discovered that if you enable accessibility on the hardy live cd with f5 and the number three keys when you boot the live CD, you can set up the root account and log into it like you can on a installed system. However, for some reason if you do not enable accessibility until you run orca after the live CD boots. You can still set up the root account, but for some reason you can not log into it. I will test this later, and if ubiquity works ok we should have a way to install with speech even though it will mean setting up the root account first. I really don't know why this can not be a option by default. The other thing I don't know yet is if installing from the root account will have any effect on the install process. Anyway I just thought I would share that information. Mike. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
does anyone think a basic guide for new users is a good idea?
I am sending this to both the ubuntu accessibility and orca list. Hi, since I started using linux a few years ago I have received a great deal of help from this list. As a thanks I am willing to put together a basic guide for new users that will give them some basic information they can use to get started with orca and ubuntu. I use ubuntu as my main linux operating system so would describe it in this guide. However, I will also mention that there are several linux distributions that people can try. Anyway if you think a guide like this is a good idea, I am open to suggestions on what people would like to see included in it. If anyone has the current list of orca and gnome keyboard commands handy I am willing to include those lists at the end if you can send them to me. Mike. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: does anyone think a basic guide for new users is a good idea?
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, mike coulombe wrote: [...] As a thanks I am willing to put together a basic guide for new users that will give them some basic information they can use to get started with orca and ubuntu. [...] Definitely a good idea. Trawling bookshops and the web there is little info out there. [...] I am open to suggestions on what people would like to see included in it. I'd like to know what support there is for people who prefer large print. Trying Ubuntu out a while back I had difficulties when I set the fonts to be large, and whilst I appreciated the existence of a magnifier, I felt it was rather limited in what it could do. Getting terminal windows setup for high contrast, low glare (Eg light on dark) with large print took a while as well, and I think when I tried Vim there was no colour support in the terminal I accessed. Syntax highlighting is great help for trapping absent small punctuation chars like `. Then there are the braille users. [My braille is dead slow, and I don't know 8-dot anyway.] This would be important for deafblind people as well. At present I won't be able to contribute anything to this, but the time will come. Thank you, Hugh -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
