Hi All: I answered Mike's cross post on the Orca user's list, but here's what I wrote for others also interested in the answer:
"I'm currently working on enabling the OpenSolaris live CD to include Orca and to permit an accessible install via Orca. We currently have some Sun-internal prototypes that have been shown to work -- Mike Pedersen can burn the CD, boot it, and install OpenSolaris without sighted assistance. It's a bit clunky at the moment, but it works. :-) In the meantime, OpenSolaris includes GNOME and all of the accessibility infrastructure with it. It's currently missing a speech engine, however, making it kind of useless for speech users. :-(. A lot of the work I'm going through involves getting eSpeak in OpenSolaris, which just involves making sure we do things "right" according to the OpenSolaris development/release process. I hope to have an accessible install for OpenSolaris 2008.11." For the answer to Alt+F2 - OpenSolaris has the same built-in keyboard navigation as GNOME. OpenSolaris, however, remaps Alt+F2 to Ctrl+Esc. I'm just the messenger. Don't shoot me. ;-) Hope this helps, Will On Aug 16, 2008, at 9:25 AM, mike wrote: > Hi, I am a blind computer user. I downloaded the os200805 release and > need to know if this boots into the gnome desktop? If so, is the Orca > screen reader included. I booted the system, but using the keyboard > keys alt and f2 didn't bring up a run dialog. So I also need to know > if this os is strictly mouse driven? Thanks for any info Mike. > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
