Thanks.Though, I can't find the packages surfraw-heavy (I installed surfraw and it installed also surfraw-extras) nor youtube-pipe ? ------- Original Message ------- On Wednesday, June 15th, 2022 at 11:34 PM, <jdash...@panix.com> wrote:
> If I were going to do that, emacs lynx surfraw-heavy, mlocate would be my > choices. Emacs is a swiss army knife software which has many capabilities. > These choices are on basis of command line use so if the users go down that > path they'll have more than vimm to use. If emacs is too large jove is > available with far fewer extra tools. For media mpv and youtube-pipe could > help for listening. > > On June 15, 2022 4:55:06 PM LibreFaso <libref...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi all ! > > I'm preparing a (very small) bunch of old computers for the ABPAM kids in > > Ouagadougou (ETA unknown, alas). > > But I don't know what to put on them in addition to Orca, Compiz and eSpeak. > > There are many softwares in the Debian-accessibility category, should I > > install them all ?I don't want to clutter the computers nor confuse the > > kids, they use NVDA and JAWS but never had a Debian machine before. > > The guy who's supposed to teach them is a quite competent Linux user, so he > > may probably be able to install packages on site (if he can find enough > > bandwidth), but it's probably better if the computers are ready when I send > > them. > > Also, he knows even less than I do about accessibility (the kids have been > > warned that they'll have to teach him to teach them), so getting the right > > advises now would be fine. > > I've been told that "it depends on the intended uses" : but since the > > intended uses is to have the kids explore the possibilities offered by free > > software, there are a lot of them. > > The kids of ABPAM are mostly blind, but some of them are vision-impaired > > though able to somehow see (I don't know the details). Also they have > > friends who can see, and if the idea is not to have the seeing kids take > > the computers away from the blind kids, it would be nice if there were > > things on which they can cooperate between blind kids and seeing kids. > > Since I have only a small bunch of computers to send as of now, it would be > > mostly for the teenagers/young adults (still in high school), the younger > > kids will have to wait for later batches (if I can provide them). > > Thanks in advance ! > >
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