[Trainer-Talk] Linux

[Nimer Jaber]

Hello David,

The screen reader is Orca, and is built into many distros. As for
magnification, there are a number of magnifiers, depending on the distro
and desktop being used. I believe the one used with distros that use Gnome
is gnome-mag.

Thanks.

On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 1:39 PM David Ward via Trainer-Talk <
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> I've got Unbuntu installed in a WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) on my
> Windows 10 system, which I guess works like a VM. 20 years ago I bulit
> my first PC out of high school to run Linux or Windows it was a
> dual-boot system. I use it mostly for the CLI and Bash these days, like
> was mentioned. But my vision isn't what it use to be, I'd love to hear
> about screen readers folks use and or if there's a Zoom/ZoomText/Magic
> like piece of software as well, and or if any of the distros have
> anything built in, on either front.
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> On 8/17/2021 1:09 PM, Nimer Jaber via Trainer-Talk wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I use Linux with Orca mostly, but with others when using cli. I use
> Fedora
> > as my distro of choice. As for what I do with it, pretty much any
> computing
> > task. Linux is quite powerful, though it is not user-friendly, and it
> does
> > take a willingness to play, break things, explore, learn, etc. Finally,
> > should you reach out to communities and groups to ask about Linux, be
> > prepared to talk about what you did to solve your issue, otherwise you
> will
> > be directed to the manual.
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 6:24 AM Dr Denise M Robinson via Trainer-Talk <
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> >> Those who are using Linux machines, what screen readers do you prefer
> with
> >> it? What do you use it for the majority of the time?
> >> Thanks
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-- 
Best,

Nimer Jaber

Registered Linux User 529141.
http://counter.li.org/

To find out about a free, open-source, and versatile screen reader for
Windows, visit nvaccess.org <http://www.nvda-project.org>

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Thank you, and have a great day!