Hi,
I almost always use the windowing environment, though console access
would be nice if it were easy to set up. I would like to see the
Trisquel network install with an accessible console option, like the new
Debian Net Install has. In the Wheezy net installer, the user types a
single 's' at the boot prompt, and the speakup console screen reader
comes up. Furthermore, the resulting installation has both console and
GNOME accessibility. I can't speak to Trisquel's braille support; I
only use speech. I find Trisquel's implementation, based on the GNOME
fallback, to be very easy to use with Orca. I tried GNOME Shell and
found its accessibility lacking. In other distros, GNOME Shell does
work, so I'm not sure what may be missing here; it might just be a
setting not having been enabled.
In my installation, I deviate from some of Trisquel's default
applications. Thunderbird mail and exaile music player are more
accessible with Orca than are evolution and rhythmbox, for instance. As
an added convenience, it would be nice to have qt-at-spi as part of the
default Trisquel windowing environment; this would expand the set of
accessible applications, without effecting performance on systems in
which the accessibility is not used. QT-AT-SPI is in the repos, and
I've installed it for use with the mumble client.
