mastodon - Link to source
Ah good. Windows 11 is installing updates and such. I thought Linux accessibility was improving. And maybe on Arch, it's better. But you shouldn't have to be a power user, and don't kid yourself, if you can install Arch, remember to install Orca, enable ESpeakup, all that, you are a power user. I shouldn't have to be a power user to enjoy Linux. Honestly, most of what I do on Linux is just using the web, email, Terminal, and using Emacs. So, meh. Maybe I'm just not good enough for Linux. And this is why I stay cinical. If saving screen reader settings crashed just about everything including keyboard input, blind people would be storming the gates of that screen reader vendor. Just saying. Ugh. I'll just keep my work computer on Fedora 41. Oh, no wonder, I've not had my anti-depressants today. Blech.
#accessibility #foss #blind #linux
#Accessibility #linux #foss #blind
in reply to aaron

mastodon - Link to source

Devin Prater :blind:

@fireborn When saving settings for Orca, Orca says "screen reader settings reloaded" and seemingly crashes everything. Keyboard input doesn't work, so if I press Alt + F2, and arrow left or right, no sound is heard. usually, there's the usual water drip sound. If I'm on Enafore for Mastodon, on the home timeline, and arrow down passed the first status, I can arrow a good 3 or 4 times, but then on the next down arrow, I'm taken back to the first status. It loops around like that unless I quickly arrow down. It's caused me to reply to the wrong status a few times. The Outloud speech server seems to require TCL 8.6 and TCLX 8.4 Fedora 42 comes with TCL 9. So that doesn't work anymore. When I bring over my compiled Emacspeak and speech server from another Fedora machine, 41, it says it can't find the TCLX command, or something like that.
@aaron
⇧