Re: Which softwares to install ?

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On Wednesday, June 15th, 2022 at 11:34 PM, <jdashiel@panix.com> wrote:

If I were going to do that, emacs lynx surfraw-heavy, mlocate would be my choices. Emacs is a swiss army knife software which has many capabilities. These choices are on basis of command line use so if the users go down that path they'll have more than vimm to use. If emacs is too large jove is available with far fewer extra tools. For media mpv and youtube-pipe could help for listening.

On June 15, 2022 4:55:06 PM LibreFaso <LibreFaso@protonmail.com> wrote:

Hi all !

I'm preparing a (very small) bunch of old computers for the ABPAM kids in Ouagadougou (ETA unknown, alas).

But I don't know what to put on them in addition to Orca, Compiz and eSpeak.

There are many softwares in the Debian-accessibility category, should I install them all ?
I don't want to clutter the computers nor confuse the kids, they use NVDA and JAWS but never had a Debian machine before.

The guy who's supposed to teach them is a quite competent Linux user, so he may probably be able to install packages on site (if he can find enough bandwidth), but it's probably better if the computers are ready when I send them.

Also, he knows even less than I do about accessibility (the kids have been warned that they'll have to teach him to teach them), so getting the right advises now would be fine.

I've been told that "it depends on the intended uses" : but since the intended uses is to have the kids explore the possibilities offered by free software, there are a lot of them.

The kids of ABPAM are mostly blind, but some of them are vision-impaired though able to somehow see (I don't know the details). Also they have friends who can see, and if the idea is not to have the seeing kids take the computers away from the blind kids, it would be nice if there were things on which they can cooperate between blind kids and seeing kids.

Since I have only a small bunch of computers to send as of now, it would be mostly for the teenagers/young adults (still in high school), the younger kids will have to wait for later batches (if I can provide them).

Thanks in advance !