website?
On 2019-11-08 17:29, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote:
A company who sells computers with Debian, from a universality access
point of view. It means: not needed to use commandlinie (but possible)
MATE desktop, Orca with as nice as possible voice according to the
language, Iris OCR to read paper documents, Compiz for visual settings
if the person needs negative or color filter or magnification or
whatever, etc.
All they provide is with 12 support hours (among 5 hours training, 3
pure support hours and initial customizations, help to import data,
mail accounts, help to set the initial voice parameters, braille, etc).
Any dev are free, as much as possible in upstream projects (Mate,
Mozilla, Compiz, GTK/Qt/Muter, etc).
Another plan exists with: 89E/month subscription, 399 security
deposit, 199 setup, and you have a computer, support, training,
unlimited and without minimum duration of subscription. Always rely on
Debian. Free updates.
The purpose: making everybody access to the computer, and making
disable people the most standalone possible via a good computer usage
without technical skills (but opened for those who have them).
Regards
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Le 08/11/2019 à 17:14, mattias a écrit :
what is hypra?
On 2019-11-08 17:10, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
Hi Devin,
Sorry for advertisment in advance, but:
> I would definitely recommend the Mac. You’ll still be able to run
free software, in an environment like > Unix. Optionally, if you use
the command line, check out https://github.com/tspivey/tdsr
<https://github.com/tspivey/tdsr>
Hypra machines do this too. And will always do.
> It isn’t as powerful as Fenrir or Speak, but it gets the job done
well. Also, the graphical utilities that come with the Mac, Safari,
Mail, text-edit, are great also. There is spell checking,
autocorrect, text replacement, and AppleScripting and Automation,
all configurable, throughout the system, not just in > your word
processor, all accessible with VoiceOver.
Hypra has Firefox, Thunderbird, pluma, Libreoffice, accessible all
right. And all the Debian catalog.
> Of course, there are current bugs. In Safari, you hear “insertion
point at (nil)” at the end of every paragraph unless you use the
arrow keys, and not VoiceOver navigation, to read. These bugs are
usually fixed within the year of a version release, and the releases
are often much better than the public beta versions.
> I seriously hope that Linux stays accessible, because I’d hate to
see free software let us down so majorly. But, volunteers are not
held to a standard of accessibility, so I will not be shocked if all
we have left in Linux is the command line.
What I mean here is not doiing free advertisment, but making you
aware of this: buy Mac, pay about 1000 euros or much more, learn
yourself, hope there are not regressions, use only Apple compatible
accesories, try reporting but Apple does not listen always (said one
of their community leader). Buy Hypra about 2000 euros, get an
out-of-the-box accessible Debian, a warranty it will stay accessible
through updates, free updates, persons you can talk to, in order to
request for things and getting support and training, fund the free
software dev to avoid such dark future as described on the thread.
You can connect most accessories (even Apple ones despite many
complexities).
In other words, if you use free software, why changing it for Mac
whereas you can pay nearly the same for a full Linux accessible,
warranty and with human support? So far there were few warranties,
hence people going to typical computers, now there is, so free
software supporters should pay to fund this effort instead of paying
for Apple, whose effort is not the same after Jobs' death.
Regards
