[orca-list] More information on MATE or GNOME for Debian

[James <james londonsw15 gmail com>]

Hi everyone

Thanks to everyone so far who has advised on this issue. Let me try to 
provide a little more info.

I am running Debian Stretch (9.0.3 I think) in a VM under VirtualBox on 
Windows 10. I do not have a Braille Display so am using Speakup via the 
'S' command on the Debian Installer (Network installer I have installed 
both Debian Standard Desktop Environment and MATE using this method, 
replacing one with hte other.

While niehter GUI provides speech feedback, installing MATE offers 
speech in the TTY. By contrast installing Debian Standard Desktop 
Environment offers a talking bootloader (very impressive) but no speech 
anywhere else.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Best wishes

James