[Kde-accessibility] can't subscribe to list

[Jude DaShiell]

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 <jpwhiting at kde.org>
> To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>
> Cc: kde-accessibility at kde.org
> 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 <jdashiel at panix.com> 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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