On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, mike coulombe wrote:
> [...] As a thanks I am willing to
> put together a basic guide for new users that will give them
> some basic information they can use to get started with orca and
> ubuntu. [...]
Definitely a good idea. Trawling bookshops and the web there is
little info out there.
> [...] I am open
> to suggestions on what people would like to see included in it.
I'd like to know what support there is for people who prefer large
print. Trying Ubuntu out a while back I had difficulties when I set
the fonts to be large, and whilst I appreciated the existence of a
magnifier, I felt it was rather limited in what it could do.
Getting terminal windows setup for high contrast, low glare (Eg
light on dark) with large print took a while as well, and I think
when I tried Vim there was no colour support in the terminal I
accessed. Syntax highlighting is great help for trapping absent
small punctuation chars like "`".
Then there are the braille users. [My braille is dead slow, and I
don't know 8-dot anyway.] This would be important for deafblind
people as well.
At present I won't be able to contribute anything to this, but the
time will come.
Thank you,
Hugh
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