Re: sparkylinux info

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I suppose the conclusion is: accessibility doesn't happen by accident. It needs people to look after it.

On 18/3/23 13:27, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
It's kind of sad really. I thought I'd try vanilla OS out, and speech-dispatcher wasn't packaged correctly in the installer. Okay no problem, I'll just install speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng. Then I found out the installer was A, GTK4, and B, seemed to render everything to Orca at once, so finding what screen you were on and going through them was more trouble than it was worth.

On 18/03/2023 17:18, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
It should be no surprise that if you download some Linux distribution which has no accessibility community, it isn't accessible.

This sort of message keeps coming up on mailing lists with various distributions, with similar results.

If you want accessibility, you basically have to keep to the distributions for which someone is looking after the accessibility-related packages, and preferably for which there's a community of screen reader users.

For "mainstream" (i.e., not specifically accessibility-oriented) distributions, it probably means Arch, Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu for the most part at this point - with apologies in advance for whatever I've inadvertently left out.

On 18/3/23 08:09, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
Don't download this installer.  Its package list has neither espeak nor
orca in it and that means if you do make the download mistake you're going
to need a sighted install and maybe won't find espeak or orca in their
repositories either.


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defense of liberty:
  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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