Re: Solaris 10 released, with accessibility built-in! Also FreeTTS1.2 released.

["Thomas Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net>]

Hi Ken,
I am afraid most of the operating systems fall in this catagory. FreeBSD is
also now accessible via gnopernicus, but requires  a serial install,
configuration of sound card, etc before it can be even used.
Solaris as far as I know doesn't have an accessible install either, but I
know from older versions it was possible to do serial terminal installs.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Perry" <whistler blinksoft com>
To: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow gmx net>
Cc: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: Solaris 10 released, with accessibility built-in! Also
FreeTTS1.2 released.


>
>
> Hmm I would hope that an Accessible solution would also have an
> accessible install.  Not everyone has two systems to use to install
> their OS.  In fact I had hoped to install this at a computer club
> meeting here at the CNIB.
>
> Ken
>
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Alex Snow wrote:
>
> > Your best bet is probably installing it over a serial console. I'm not
> > sure how you do this with solarus but It should be possible.
> > On Tue, Mar
> > 01, 2005 at 03:58:47PM -0800, Ken Perry wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > One question I did down load solaris 10 and am going to try it out as
> > > soon as I get a free drive which should be rather soon.  I don't see
an
> > > accessible install doc anywhere.  does solaris install talk?  If so is
> > > there some place I can go to read how it works?
> > >
> > > KenOn Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Peter
> > > Korn wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Kenny, Ken,
> > > >
> > > > Solaris 10 is a shipping UNIX that is based on GNOME 2.6.x with
> > > > accessibility components from GNOME 2.8.x, our 1.7 branch of
accessible
> > > > Mozilla, and lots of other goodies (details in my blog).  But I
don't mean
> > > > to claim it is "the best access to the GNOME desktop" - if I implied
that
> > > > anywhere, it wasn't my intention.  It is, to my knowledge, the only
> > > > commercially shipping accessible GNOME desktop, which is a different
> > > > statement.
> > > >
> > > > As Bill Haneman noted, Solaris 10 is (of necessity) behind GNOME
HEAD, which
> > > > has yet still more bug fixes, improvements, etc. beyond what is in
Solaris
> > > > 10.
> > > >
> > > > Ken - I'm delighted to hear about what will be going into Fedora
Core 4.
> > > > The more (accessible UNIX or GNU/Linux systems) the merrier!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Peter Korn
> > > > Sun Accessibility team
> > > >
> > > > Kenny Hitt wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi.  I already run Debian unstable with some packages built from
source.
> > > > >
> > > > > At the risk of starting a flame war, I like Debian over
Redhat/Fedora.
> > > > >
> > > > > My interest in Solaris was because of a message on the blinux list
from
> > > > > Peter Korn stating the best access to the Gnome desktop was with
the
> > > > > latest release of Solaris.  I would like to try it to see how
close my
> > > > > access to Gnome in Linux compares with the access to Gnome in
Solaris.
> > > > >
> > > > >           Kenny
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:34:27AM -0800, Ken Perry wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I downloaed it with Widnows XP but know this it is not the best
> > > > > > accessiblity in fact Core 4 will ahve the same stuff Solaris 10
has
> > > > > > thats Fedora Core 4 in fact if you can upgrade to the beta core
4 in
> > > > > > march it will have everything this release of Solaris had.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > KenOn Tue, 1 Mar
> > > > > > 2005, Kenny
> > > > > > Hitt wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hi.  I'm just wondering if any one has managed to download
this using a
> > > > > > > Linux system?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I can't seem to regester with elinks 0.10.2 or lynx 2.8.5.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Parts of the site are accessible with Mozilla, but I keep
running into
> > > > > > > garbage text for some parts of the page.  If I compare results
from
> > > > > > > elinks and lynx to what I get with Mozilla, maybe I can
eventually
> > > > > > > figure things out.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Since the release info suggests Solaris will provide the best
> > > > > > > accessibility to Gnome, I would like to try it.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Thanks in advance.
> > > > > > >           Kenny
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > PS  I understand I will have use either a serial console or a
ssh
> > > > > > > session to do the install, but that is acceptable as long as I
can get
> > > > > > > it up and running.
> > > > > > >
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