Re: [orca-list] Mint and orca

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

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hi
I don't think mint itself is all that accessible, at least if you use
their default desktop, cinnamon. If you use the mate edition, or the
gnome edition if they have one, it will work fine. If you use mate,
you'll need to hit alt+f2, type orca, and then you're good to go. Then
press alt+f1 for the main menu, press right arrow twice to get to the
settings, down arrow and then right arrow to preferences, highlight
assistsive technologies, and press enter. Check the 'enable assistive
technologies' check box, then press the 'preferred applications'
button. Orca should appear in a combo box next to a 'run at start'
check box. Check that box, close, and close again, make sure you hit
the close buttons, not just closing the windows out, and you're good
to go. Whether the mint installer is accessible I don't kno, but if it
uses the standard ubuntu installer it'll work just fine. Sorry for the
berbosity, but I'm trying to be as clear as possible. Mate recently
made a change to it's settings daemon so now all you need to do is
press a key combination, it defaults to alt+windows+s to turn on orca,
and it's accessibility settings, but I'm not sure mint lts has this
yet. If you're using gnome, things are a lot simpler. Just press
alt+windows+s to turn on orca, which will activate all of gnome's
accessibility settings with one keystroke.
Thanks
Kendell clark


Michael Weaver wrote:
> Can Mint be used with Orca? I have to get Sighted help to install
> Linux on my current computer as it was a Windows laptop when I
> originally bought it and although secure boot has been disabled
> etc, a key combination appears to have to be press on startup to be
> able to boot from the CD or DVD as most distros seem to take up
> more space than will fit on a CD. I am considering Mint as I have
> never really had much luck in playing some of my DVDs
>
>
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