[oats-sig] Fwd: Ubuntu accessible install is now here, from CD boot.

Good news.

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From: Luke Yelavich <themuso at ubuntu.com>
Date: 23 Apr 2008 13:35
Subject: Ubuntu accessible install is now here, from CD boot.
To: Orca screen reader developers <orca-list at gnome.org>, Ubuntu
Accessibility Mailing List <ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com>

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 Hi all.
 I am proud to announce that finally, there is an easy way to use the
Ubuntu gui installer, ubiquity, with orca. The instructions below will
get you from CD boot, to a totally accessible installer in a matter of
minutes. No longer will you have to boot the live CD, and do several
hacks just to get access to the installer.

 Booting and using the installer.
 1. Insert the CD into your computer's CD drive, and boot as normal.
 2. When the CD boots, unlike previous versions of Ubuntu, a list of
languages will be shown, with the default as English. You need to
either press enter, or somehow select the language you want with the
arrow keys, and then press enter. Once you have done this, you will
then have access to the CD boot menu, and the accessibility profiles.
 3. At this point, you can either boot into the live CD and the
desktop, or boot directly into the installer. To boot into the
installer, press the down arrow once, then press F5, and select the
accessibility profile you want. Then press enter once again to star
the bootup process.

 Note. When you boot into the installer, the desktop is not loaded at
all, however the orca window will be accessible, if the profile you
have chosen uses orca in any way. Once the installer has loaded, you
will find that focus is already on the installer window. You can quit
the installer if you wish. Doing so will then send you into the live
Desktop, with orca loaded, as normal.

 I'd like to publically thank those on the Ubuntu installer team who
helped me get this done. We have needed good access to the GUI
installer for a long time now, and we finally have it.

 If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me, and I'll
be happy to help you.

 Regards

 Luke Yelavich
 Ubuntu Accessibility Team leader.
 Ubuntu Developer.
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