Re: [orca-list] (General Linux) Ubuntu server accessibility

["John G. Heim" <jheim math wisc edu>]

Well, to do a serial terminal install, a blind person would have to have 
a terminal emulator and a screen reader on a second computer. Plus you'd 
have to have a null-modem cable. But last i checked, the Linux serial 
terminal howto was still correct as ever. If you have a null-modem cable 
and a 2nd computer near your server with a screen reader, its worth trying.


It is actually kind of nice to have a serial terminal configured on a 
server. You can take a laptop to the server room, connect up the null 
modem cable, and get a console login prompt. A long time ago, servers 
didn't used to come with their own video card and keyboard. You always 
plugged a terminal into a serial port. Boot messages were automatically 
directed to ttyS0. All that stuff still works today although you may 
have to configure it.


On 7/26/20 11:38 AM, webczat_200 poczta onet pl wrote:
> serial port is the best if you can. you do not depend on a screenreader,
> yet you can do more than on speakup, even hwsynth, because even the
> bootloader and bios in case of server supports it.
>
> W dniu 26.07.2020 o 18:26, John G. Heim via orca-list pisze:
> > I am not sure its clear, there are 2 versions of Ubuntu, server and
> > desktop. Ubuntu server does not include GUI apps. It boots into a
> > character mode installer that does not have orca because orca is for the
> > GUI. There is another screen reader, called speakup,  for the character
> > interface. You can use speakup with a hardware synth in the Ubuntu
> > server installer. I have not been able to get software speech to work in
> > the Ubuntu server installer. I can't say it can't be done but I couldn't
> > figure out how to get it to work.
> >
> >
> > There are at least 4 ways to do an accessible Ubuntu server install:
> >
> > 1. Use a hardware speech synth.
> >
> > 2. Use a braille display.
> >
> > 3. Use a terminal emulator on a serial port.
> >
> > 4. Ssh.
> >
> >
> > I am not sure there are any advantages to using the Server version of
> > Ubunto on a server. At one time, when you compiled a kernel, you had to
> > specify how many file handles you wanted, how many simultaneous users
> > you wanted to allow. The kernel would take up more or less space in RAM
> > depending upon your choices. But most of that stuff is configured at
> > boot time these days.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 7/26/20 7:07 AM, orca-list gnome org wrote:
> > > This is, as far as I know, a physical server.
> > > Devin Prater
> > > r d t prater gmail com
> > >
> > > Https://devinprater.github.io
> > >
> > > > On Jul 24, 2020, at 6:38 PM, Norman King <lists thekingstech com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi.
> > > >
> > > > Is this a virtual or physical server?
> > > >
> > > > If virtual, there are cloud images for most linux distros. Ubuntu's
> > > > cloud images are at the following link.
> > > >
> > > > https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/focal/current/
> > > >
> > > > Once the system is installed, just use ssh, you don't even need speech.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 7/24/2020 2:24 PM, Devin Prater via orca-list wrote:
> > > > > Hi all. I will have the opportunity at work to set up an Ubuntu
> > > > > server at some point. I’ll use Docker and such, but I can do that
> > > > > part. My only issue is installing Ubuntu server onto the server. Is
> > > > > there anything I need to know, or can I just SSH and go like normal,
> > > > > or should I use the server itself and use Orca? Or does it even come
> > > > > with Orca?
> > > > > Devin Prater
> > > > > r d t prater gmail com
> > > > >
> > > > > Https://devinprater.github.io
> > > > >
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