By the way, blind don't have a double meaning in french like in english, are you impaired (low vision), colorblind or blind (no sight). What accessibility softwares and hardwares do you use ? For email you should be fine with command-line tools, for facebook there's a limited command line tool, pidgin with purple facebook for the chat only and m.facebook.com link in a web browser usually do well, web browsing should be fine but like you know yet it vary from a website to another and we barely can fix that mess, watching videos could be improved by command-line seem akward but mpv or vlc and youtube-dl allow to grab or embed video in your media player, for word and excel I suppose that Libre office have some accessibility but they won't be on par with Microsoft office, I propose to save in open formats since others suites could read them without issues and it will weaken Microsoft Office monopoly in the process and that could be a good thing. Command-line tools should be blazing fast even on old hardware but for a graphical desktop expect that some are a bit heavy and some apps being heavy while Orca using a lot the hardware, it could still have issues. Like said, for now it's not perfect but I know in real life a blind programmer and online I came around the Sonar Linux developper so it is at least usable to some point but both work to fix things up, I will probably help also soon being a major Linux community manager but it's hard to work everything alone while having a busy life and many projects running ... All my wishes, may the source be with you Linarian !!! ;) 2017-11-25 9:26 UTC−05:00, michael caron couturier <spikemcc@xxxxxxxxx>: > 1. Is it possible? > > Yes > > 2. Is the accessibility ok? > > Under Windows and Mac but depending of how you use it, it could have some > gains. > > 3. Is it correct that Ubuntu mate is the best system for us? > > On Linux, there's no best, just the tool fit for you but yes Ubuntu > Mate is told to a bellow the average accessibility for a distribution > not focused on accessibility. > > 4. How do I make a usb stick to reboot my Mac with Linux? > > You could burn the iso or use a tool like Etcher for the live usb but > I can't tell about the accessibility of it, not a mac user, for > booting it, I can't tell the process on Mac hardware. > > 5. When I restart after I am in Linux, does my Mac react normal again > after using Linux? > > Depend, you should be able to test it as a live usb but if you try to > install after, you have load of things to have in mind, like having a > proper backup and the process on Mac hardware is probably a little bit > different. > > 2017-11-25 9:07 UTC−05:00, Linux for blind general discussion > <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>: >>> I would like to make the switch to Linux. >>> >>> My questions are: >>> 1. Is it possible? >> >> Yes! plenty of people do. I've run Linux full-time as my desktop for >> about a 15 years, and a mix of Windows & Linux before that. I've >> recently added some FreeBSD and OpenBSD into the mix for fun. >> >>> 2. Is the accessibility ok? >> >> There are plenty here who seem to think so (grin) >> >>> 3. Is it correct that Ubuntu mate is the best system for us? >> >> There are lots of flavors and it depends on your experience and >> likes. Fortunately, if (as you describe later) you plan not to >> install but rather just run it off a USB drive, you can try out a >> bunch of flavors and see which suit you. >> >>> 4. How do I make a usb stick to reboot my Mac with Linux? >> >> I'm a command-line guy (there might be a GUI way on the Mac, but I'm >> unfamiliar with it), so you'd find the device-name of your USB drive >> with something like >> >> gianni@my-mac$ dmesg | tail >> >> and compare the results before and after you insert the USB drive. >> With that device name (maybe something like "disk2"). A quick web >> search suggests you can also use the "diskutil" command: >> >> gianni@my-mac$ diskutil list >> >> to find it. If your Mac already mounted it, you'd have to unmount it >> with either >> >> gianni@my-mac$ umount /dev/disk2 >> >> (note, no "n" in "umount") or use `diskutil` >> >> gianni@my-mac$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2 >> >> Alternatively, you might be able to use "Eject" in Finder to unmount >> it. >> >> Once you know the name and that the USB drive isn't attached, you'd >> take the disk-image you downloaded and write it to the drive with the >> "dd" command. You might also need to use `sudo` to gain root >> privileges: >> >> gianni@my-mac$ sudo dd if=ubuntu_mate.img of=/dev/disk2 bs=1M >> >> Sudo should prompt you for your Mac password which you can then type. >> The "if" is short for "input file" and "of" is short for "output file" >> and the "bs" is for "block size" (which speeds things up if you >> read/write a megabyte at a time instead of reading/writing a single >> byte at a time; you can increase this to 2-4MB if you want, but I >> find that 1MB at a time is sufficient). >> >> I'm not sure of the magical Open Firmware command to boot a Mac from >> a USB drive. Another quick web-search suggests holding down the >> Option key when you hear the boot-chime and releasing it once the >> boot-manager comes up. I'm not sure how accessible the boot manager >> is, so you may or may not need some sighted assistance there. It >> should be (at least visually) apparent which boot device is which, >> letting you choose the USB drive instead of your internal hard-drive. >> >>> 5. When I restart after I am in Linux, does my Mac react normal >>> again after using Linux? >> >> Yep, as long as you didn't perform an install, it should be fine. >> >> Another alternative would be using something like Virtual Box to kick >> the tires within the safe confines of a virtual machine where you >> won't impact your host Mac. >> >> -tim >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> If you run purely off the USB drive, it should reboot fine. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Blinux-list mailing list >> Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >> > > > -- > Michaël Caron Couturier > -- Michaël Caron Couturier _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list