Desktop accessibility

2014-09-11 Thread Øyvind Lode
Hi all: I'm a long time Debian user. I primarily use Debian for server stuff with CLI only with Speakup. I now want to try Linux out as a desktop OS. It looks like Debian has switched to XFCE as default desktop in sid/testing. Will I be able to use the XFCE desktop with Orca? Or do I need to i

Installing Debian With USB Serial Braille on Mac Mini 6,1 via EFI

2014-09-11 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Hi, I'd like to put Debian on this Mac Mini 6,1 natively and use it as my Internet gateway and server, all the functions requiring OS X having been delegated to an always-on iMac. I copied the latest daily netinst iso to a USB stick, and booted from it. For now, attached via USB is a PacMate

Installing Debian With USB Serial Braille on Mac Mini 6,1 via EFI

2014-09-11 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Hi, I'd like to put Debian on this Mac Mini 6,1 natively and use it as my Internet gateway and server, all the functions requiring OS X having been delegated to an always-on iMac. I copied the latest daily netinst iso to a USB stick, and booted from it. For now, attached via USB is a PacMate

Re: Desktop accessibility

2014-09-11 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, XFCE seems to have a minimal a11y with Orca, that is tested now. So any feedback is good. If I remember correctly, the http://wiki.debian.org/accessibility mentions all you need to make XFCE accessible. Tell us if it is enough. Debian is wondering is they will use by default gnome, xfce,

RE: Desktop accessibility

2014-09-11 Thread Øyvind Lode
Hi: I tested by installing jessie in a VM. I installed by using the latest jessie iso and debian installer beta1. Installation went smoothly. I chose to install Debian Desktop Environment and standard system packages (category 1 and 10). I expected to then have a choice of which desktop environ

Re: Desktop accessibility

2014-09-11 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Hello Øyvind, The Jessie installer has xfce as the Debian desktop, which isn’t accessible by default, because gnome-orca doesn’t get installed with the xfce task. There has been a discussion on this in the past, and for some strange reason, the xfce team wouldn’t have orca installed with the xfc