[BRLTTY] Braille displays not working with Fedora installation process

Pawel Loba ploba60 at gmail.com
Thu May 31 09:13:04 EDT 2018


Hello Jaroslav,
Thank you for your reply

On 5/31/18, Jaroslav Skarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> wrote:
> F25 is unsupported, but F28 should work. The Fedora Installer is called
> Anaconda, IMHO it supports ATK, so it should work with ORCA. I tried
> with speach synthesizer from live media and it worked.

Agree to speech aspect of ORCA but still no Braille support working.

> Regarding brltty & ORCA IMHO it's a bit tricky. From ORCA documentation
> ORCA needs brltty running. If brltty is not running ORCA will not
> use it. I tried with xw driver (but I had to install brltty-xw first):
> $ brltty -b xw -x no -A auth=none,host=127.0.0.1:0
> $ orca
> $ liveinst
>
> And it worked.

Thanks for these instructions. These are post-installationsteps,
right? If yes, still a deaf-blind person wouldn't be able to install
Fedora on his/her own.

>
>> Another question, is there any possibility to make Fedora Server
>> installation accessible for a blind user using Braille or speech?
>>
>
> I created Anaconda bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1584679

Thank you for looking into this.

>
> thanks & regards
>
> Jaroslav

All the best,
Pawel
>
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