Talkingarchlinux has system.d by default installing along with
pulseaudio also as default. I didn't know about de-vua and when it gets
available will be interested to test it since that distro is interested
in acessibility, it's important to support those with interests in
helping accessibility in the floss community wherever found to me at
least.
talkingarchlinux as I have it set up now is a command line environment
since the tutorial on taking a command line environment to a graphical
user interface environment isn't yet available and from what I've read
talkingarchlinux is supposed to be more stable in graphical user
interface accessibility mode than sonargnulinux which is a fork from
manjaro. I don't know this to be the case yet but it will be
interesting to find out when support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx gets the time to
produce that podcast. For those that don't know, manjaro is a fork off
of archlinux and talkingarchlinux is a variant of archlinux as well.
On Mon, 7 Mar 2016, Joel Roth wrote:
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 12:43:19
From: Joel Roth <joelz@xxxxxxxxx>
To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] another reason not to like pulseaudio
Bryan Duarte wrote:
Jude,
I found the same thing happen to me also with the pulse
audio not ever fully being removed as a priority audio
output device. I have attempted to change its order,
completely turn it off, and set the USB audio driver as
the priority audio output device yet speech will not
deploy through it. There has got to be a way for us to get
these drivers installed and set to default or better yet
convert the pulse audio so we can get speech output. This
is seriously crazy that this is the only thing keeping
blind people from having full and complete access to our
devices!
Hi Bryan, Jude
I'm curious which flavor(s) of linux you are using.
And whether pulseaudio is the default in the installer.
There is an ongoing effort to remove systemd dependence in a
fork of Debian called 'Devuan', and I believe they will
be responsive to feedback on accessibility issues.
The letters 'VUA' in the name comes from 'veteran Unix
administrators.'
There is a good chance that the installer and default
installation will be ALSA only, or could be so tweaked to
support the blinux community.
One step is removing systemd, and editing package
dependencies so that packages no longer require or recommend
systemd. Heavy desktop environments (notably Gnome) that
depend heavily on systemd will be supported later if at all.
A lighter desktop environment (probably xfce) will be the
default for those want one.
A second step will be replacing udev (with its net of
dependencies which include dbus) with vdev, a simpler
replacement currently under development.
Pulseaudio also works with dbus, and I believe Devuan
developers are interested in removing the requirement for PA
from the installer and/or base system. At any rate they will
be responsive to accessbility considerations.
Cheers,
Joel
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