Moderated Re: Access Clasic Taskbar Settings In Windows 10?
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JM Casey
Hello glen. I certainly don’t require JAWS. I only wrote to say that my experience of over ten years ago was quite unsatisfactorya nd disappointing. That’s not to say that back then blind people didn’t’ successfully use Linux – they did and I talked to some of them. But there was just some weird quirk going on with my system and ORCA would not stay up for more than a few minutes at a time, no matter what I did. It also took the Linux kernel hoursa nd hours to install on it which I know was not normal – the person who was helping me get set up with Linux, a sighted user, told me that this was not at all normal given the apparent specs of the machine. Good to know about Ubuntumate. I don’t know how that differes from regular Ubuntu, which is I think what I installed back in 2009. Why do you think it’s the best for a blind user? What desktop environment are people using now anyway? I heard that Gnome had fallen out of favour, but KTE did not work with ORCA at all back then.
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Glenn / Lenny
Sent: October 8, 2022 01:28 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Access Clasic Taskbar Settings In Windows 10?
If someone cannot use anything other than Jaws, then the Linux environment might be tough. I liken using the Linux screenreader to NVDA or WindowEyes. But as in windows, the bulk of used commands are operating system commands, and not screenreader commands. I use the Eloquence voice, but people can buy the human sounding voices too, they are like 15 dollars a voice. It ships with eSpeak. Ubuntu-Mate is still the best choice for the Blind AFAIK. It ships with FireFox, and I believe TBird and VLC are still the default eMail and media players that come with it. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: JM Casey Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2022 12:17 PM Subject: Re: Access Clasic Taskbar Settings In Windows 10?
I’d love to get into using Linux. I tried around 2009 using Ubuntu with Gnome, and Orca, the screen-reader, was crashing all the time. There was a weird hardware problem with the system, I think, which I never understood – so I’m hoping it was just a one-off and that an experience today might be better. Back then, I decided to just do a lot more stuff in console/command line – fine, except I was spending so much time trying to find and read the appropriate man pages that I just gave the computer to my sighted partner instead, who was happily using Linux for a year or so, and I went back to Windows exclusively.
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Brian Vogel
On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 12:19 PM, Glenn / Lenny wrote:
- Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044 Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. ~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore |
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