Re: can't subscribe to list

So kde didn't come up with its own screen reader, this is good to know. 
What Apple did with VoiceOver in this context may be useful to describe.
  In 2008 I purchased a Mac Mini which turned out to have the older chips 
in it that would not upgrade beyond snow leopard.  It came with OSX10.4 
Tiger not installed.  I by myself hooked the computer up and tried to 
get it working not knowing the operating system was not already 
installed.  I was by myself at the time too.  I put one dvd in the combo 
drive and it got ejected promptly.  The package came with two dvd's so I 
was down to my last card.  I put the second DVD in the drive and it 
started spinning up.  I waited and suddenly VoiceOver came on and 
started asking questions which I answered with the keyboard.  When I 
finished I had to customize an operating system for accessibility I 
found a website for that later and got four years good use out of that 
computer until it was struck by lightning.  Such an experience has 
always been and I suspect will always be impossible with Microsoft 
Windows which is why I won't have it on any equipment I own and use; I 
can't reinstall it by myself on a bare metal machine.  What triggered 
VoiceOver wasn't anything I did, VoiceOver got triggered because I 
didn't answer a question that appeared on the screen within an expected 
time interval.  I am curious, could an installation disk go out and get 
orca if needed install orca and activate it in the event a would-be 
installer failed to answer a question within an expected time interval?

On Tue, 10 May 2016, Jeremy Whiting wrote:

> Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 16:45:09
> From: Jeremy Whiting <[email protected]>
> To: Jude DaShiell <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Kde-accessibility] can't subscribe to list
> 
> Jude,
>
> I hate to disappoint but here's the reality. Jovie isn't a
> screenreader so couldn't be used to make it so a blind person could
> use a kde/plasma desktop out of the box. To do that you would need a
> distribution with kde/plasma and also orca screen reader. I haven't
> heard of such a distribution, but it should be possible.
>
> thanks,
> Jeremy
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Jude DaShiell <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Captcha prevented that from happening since I use lynx and do so on a remote
>> server and have been totally blind from birth.
>>
>> My reason for having wanted to subscribe was to find out if anyone has built
>> an iso with kde and with jovie set up so a blind user could install that
>> distro using jovie and have kde come up talking afterward.  This happens
>> several times with gnome but I've heard of no efforts on the part of the kde
>> community to make a kde-accessible linux distribution by way of competition.
>> From what I recently read on the jovie wiki it appears as if jovie may be
>> ready to handle this level of work if someone had put the effort out to get
>> it done since 2012.  Slackware being the oldest commercial linux distro with
>> kde would appear to be a natural for this especially since speakup access
>> got broken by linux kernel developer intern a couple years ago.
>>
>>
>>
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