Join Us for Accessibility Test Week 2024-06-19 through 2024-06-25

2024-06-20 Thread Sumantro Mukherjee
Hey Folks! We are excited to invite you to participate in the Accessibility Test Week, a key event in our Fedora Week of Diversity, happening from June 19-25, 2024. This event underscores our commitment to making Fedora accessible to all, ensuring that our latest features can be utilized by

Re: fedora mate spin accessibility?

2022-01-03 Thread Majid Hussain
ou should run the command gsettings set org.mate.interface accessibility true as a user. So, before switching back to alt-F1, run the above after you have installed orca. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-l

Re: fedora mate spin accessibility?

2022-01-03 Thread stan via users
arting Mate, and after installing orca, you should run the command gsettings set org.mate.interface accessibility true as a user. So, before switching back to alt-F1, run the above after you have installed orca. ___ users mailing list -- user

fedora mate spin accessibility?

2022-01-03 Thread majid hussain
hi there, my name is majid hussain, I am blind. I have downloaded the fedora mate spin and am trying to launch orca the screen reader from the live iso. via mate's alt plus f2 shortcut. orca is not running however. could someone tell me if orca has been added to the latest fedora 35 mate spin iso

Re: A question about enabling, or making sure, that accessibility is enabled

2021-03-05 Thread Francisco Tissera
t the installation of Arch Linux, I gathered that in the home directory of a user, there should be a xinitrc file, where a user can specify what accessibility options they want enabled. Well, is there an equivalent of a xinitrc file in Fedora, and would these options be ok to insert to make

Re: A question about enabling, or making sure, that accessibility is enabled

2021-03-05 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 08:23:11AM +0100, Francisco Tissera wrote: > So, from a guide about the installation of Arch Linux, I gathered that in the > home directory of a user, there should be a xinitrc file, where a user can > specify what accessibility options they want enabled. >

A question about enabling, or making sure, that accessibility is enabled

2021-03-04 Thread Francisco Tissera
Hello everyone, So, from a guide about the installation of Arch Linux, I gathered that in the home directory of a user, there should be a xinitrc file, where a user can specify what accessibility options they want enabled.Well, is there an equivalent of a xinitrc file in Fedora, and would these

Fedora Mate accessibility

2020-03-11 Thread Devin Prater via users
Hi all. I just tried installing Fedora Mate into a virtual machine, using VmWare for accessibility reasons. I am blind, so use the Orca screen reader <https://github.com/GNOME/orca>. During installation, Orca works fine, although I had to turn up the sound volume using AlsaMixer i

Re: Accessibility

2016-05-30 Thread stan
On Mon, 30 May 2016 14:28:32 - "Tiemo Kieft" wrote: > > An appearance theme setting, with your preferred colour scheme. > > I tried look for one that is good enough, but I haven't found it yet. > The problem in most cases is de text selection cursor, in most themes > that is just a tiny ve

Re: Accessibility

2016-05-30 Thread Tiemo Kieft
> An appearance theme setting, with your preferred colour scheme. I tried look for one that is good enough, but I haven't found it yet. The problem in most cases is de text selection cursor, in most themes that is just a tiny vertical bar. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Accessibility

2016-05-30 Thread Tiemo Kieft
> Are you using Gnome? If so, then in Gnome Tweak Tool, under "Keyboard > and Mouse", there's an option called "show location of pointer". If > you > turn that on, then every time you press the control key, the mouse > pointer is highlighted by moving circles. Unfortunately that isn't very v

Re: Accessibility

2016-05-21 Thread Doug
On 05/21/2016 11:16 PM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 21 May 2016, Samuel Sieb sent: in Gnome Tweak Tool, under "Keyboard and Mouse", there's an option called "show location of pointer". If you turn that on, then every time you press the control key, the mouse pointer is highlighted by mov

Re: Accessibility

2016-05-21 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 21 May 2016, Samuel Sieb sent: > in Gnome Tweak Tool, under "Keyboard and Mouse", there's an option > called "show location of pointer". If you turn that on, then every > time you press the control key, the mouse pointer is highlighted by > moving circles. Even that's not

Re: Accessibility

2016-05-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 05/21/2016 02:33 AM, Tiemo Kieft wrote: Thanks for the suggestions, I'm familiar with the option you are referring to, but I need something that I can turn on permanently. The Show Mouse plugin in compiz is a bit too dynamic for that (unless they have dramatically changed it.) Are you usin

Re: Accessibility

2016-05-21 Thread Tiemo Kieft
Hi Joe, Thanks for the suggestions, I'm familiar with the option you are referring to, but I need something that I can turn on permanently. The Show Mouse plugin in compiz is a bit too dynamic for that (unless they have dramatically changed it.) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: Accessibility

2016-05-19 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2016-05-19 at 06:41 +, Tiemo Kieft wrote: > The two things that I absolutely depend on are the ability to invert > screen colors (black becomes white and vice versa) and some way to > make the mouse cursor more visible. An appearance theme setting, with your preferred colour scheme. N

Re: Accessibility

2016-05-18 Thread Joe Zeff
blue circle, but is not visible in the screenshot. Anyway, I'm looking for suggestions to solve this problem so I can use Linux on my desktop once again. If you use a DE that works with Compiz, there's an option under Accessibility to Show Mouse. I have it set to have three b

Accessibility

2016-05-18 Thread Tiemo Kieft
Hi all, I've used linux on my desktop in the past with great joy and I would like to start using it again, but I'm running into some accessibility problems. I'm visually impaired, and I need some aids to use a computer. The two things that I absolutely depend on are the ab

Re: Accessibility (slow keys) in Gnome3 login screen - cannot deactivate.

2012-03-16 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 07:58:05AM -0600, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote: > For some reason some accessibility features (specifically slow keys > and sticky keys) in my Gnome3 login screen turn on, and I cannot > seems to deactivate / disable / turn-off / reset it. I tried turn > them

Accessibility (slow keys) in Gnome3 login screen - cannot deactivate.

2012-03-15 Thread S P Arif Sahari Wibowo
Hi! For some reason some accessibility features (specifically slow keys and sticky keys) in my Gnome3 login screen turn on, and I cannot seems to deactivate / disable / turn-off / reset it. I tried turn them off from the accessibility menu at top right, looks like turned off from the menu