Ubuntu versus Oralux and other questions

2006-10-28 Thread Cleverson
Hello all I am blind and live in Brazil. I started to get envolved with Linux about one year ago. I have made some contributions to Oralux project, especially translating documents to Brazilian Portuguese language. Currently, I have Oralux installed on my hard drive, though I haven't migrated

Using Orca with Evolution

2006-10-28 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
hello there, all, Thanks for the advice on getting Ubuntu going on my dinosaur PC. The alternate install did turn out to have accessibiity features, and I'm probably going to switch my OSes around as soon as I get up the gumption to do all the backing up of my other hard drive necessary to

Re: just a idea

2006-10-28 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Maybe some of the gurus out there can answer this better, but can't Xubuntu be used in such a way or is it too big to put on a usb stick or such? /Krister On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 22:14 -0500, mike coulombe wrote: > Hi,I was using a computer at a friends house today and had a idea. > Would it be poss

Re: just a idea

2006-10-28 Thread Steve Lee
Actually could the LiveCD image be made to work on a USB key? It would be great if users could carry their AT setup with them from machine to machine. That implies the same OS/Distro on each machine or standards. Ideally just the config would be carried but the portable apps way would allow 'insta

Minor start up accessibility issue

2006-10-28 Thread Steve Lee
This may be specific to my system as I upgraded my laptop edubuntu installation to Ubuntu 6.10 which I guess means it may now not be quite a complete ubuntu or edubuntu setup (there was no option to upgrade to edubuntu 6.10). When I boot up the progress bar has extremely low contrast, in fact I ca