Re: MATE chosen by default instead of gnome for blind people [Was: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 6 release]

2016-05-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Christian Schoepplein, on Sun 22 May 2016 22:48:09 +0200, wrote: > BTW., I'd like to give GNOME3 a try. But because I need my machine for > daily work it would be interesting if I can install the gnome packages > without making my MATE environment unuseable. Is this working? Yes. Just ma

Re: Emacspeak 44 In Debian

2016-05-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Raman, On 22-05-16 21:54, raman wrote: > The end-state we need to achieve with the package: > > 1. User on an out-of-the-box setup gets Emacs up and talking with > Espeak -- no questions asked. Just to be clear, you mean after installing the emacspeak package, not after installing emacs, righ

Re: MATE chosen by default instead of gnome for blind people [Was: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 6 release]

2016-05-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Mario, On 23-05-16 14:05, Mario Lang wrote: > I am quoting just one sentence, I hope it is clear why such > documentation material is absolutely useless to end users. > > Under the heading "Blindness", select "Read screen aloud". > > "Quickly turn Screen Reader on and off > >You can turn

Re: MATE chosen by default instead of gnome for blind people [Was: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 6 release]

2016-05-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, on Sun 22 May 2016 22:33:49 +0200, wrote: > Also, is there a guide for blind people new to gnome3, teaching how the > interface is working? If there is one, we need to point to it from > the debian accessibility wiki. Thinking again, I still wouldn't set gnome3 by default if it *

Re: MATE chosen by default instead of gnome for blind people [Was: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 6 release]

2016-05-24 Thread Tony Baechler
On 5/22/2016 3:13 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Could blind people here comment on this: why you don't use gnome and prefer MATE instead? (or the converse of course, the idea is not to blame gnome, we just want to select by default what is best for users, according to their situation. Ideally we'd j

Re: best debian live disc to use for accessibility

2016-05-24 Thread Tony Baechler
On 5/22/2016 5:44 AM, Nick Gawronski wrote: Hi, I was trying to find what is the best Debian live disc to use that has accessibility either speakup or orca or both but I would rather have speakup for console access? Do any of the discs have a timeout at the boot prompt other then the beep? Nick