Accessibility: Would it be possible to add Orca to the Tumbleweed live image?

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Hello! I’m a blind user who would love to try out OS Tumbleweed. The project looks really cool.

I have downloaded the current Gnome live installation image, but it seems it does not include Orca, the Linux’ screenreader.

Is there some place or a person I could talk to regarding this issue? Gnome has been quite active in the recent years regarding a11y development, with Orca also being their project, which is now a pretty solid and prominent part of the DE.

As such, it could be a low-hanging fruit for OS to implement support for screenreader users, since the environment is already prepared to be used by assistive technologies and has everything necessary in place, the only thing missing is the AT themselves.

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Hi, welcome to these forums.

IIRC one can install orca on the Live USB, and in the install Summary one can change the package selection and add orca to the to be installed system.

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Hi and welcome to the Forum :smile:
I’ve also pinged the openSUSE GNOME folks to see if it’s possible.

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@RastislavKish Hi, so it was dues to the GNOME Live image size constraint and orca was removed in 2019, the size is now 1.2G so can be added back in. I’ve made the change and just waiting for a test build to finish. Once that is ok, will be able to submit. Will update the thread when that is done :wink:

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@malcolmlewis hey, thank you so much for looking into this! :grin: The Tumbleweed Gnome image is probably the smallest ISO of a modern live GUI system I’ve ever seen :slightly_smiling_face: the team had already done a very good job in this regard.

Looking forward to trying it out! :grin:

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@RastislavKish It’s now in the image, just need to do a few more steps to submit…

Quick test in qemu;

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I’ve submitted the update, just need to wait… Request 1283476: Submit livecd-openSUSE - openSUSE Build Service

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@RastislavKish So SR was accepted, you just need to wait for a new snapshot and should be there for you to test out :wink:

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@malcolmlewis awesome, thanks! The snapshot with orca included has just landed yesterday, and it works really nicely! :grin::grin::grin:

I’ve noticed the folks developing the new agama installer have just recently switched to GNOME. If they could include a similar patch, the system installation could become fully accessible too. I will fill out an issue regarding this.