does anyone think a basic guide for new users is a good idea?

[Steve Lee]

yes a great idea Mike

I suggest keep it simple and practical so as to fill the gap left by
all the techy stuff.

Steve

2008/8/7 Hugh Sasse <hgs at dmu.ac.uk>:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, mike coulombe wrote:
>
>>   [...] As a thanks I am willing to
>>   put together a basic guide for new users that will give them
>>   some basic information they can use to get started with orca and
>>   ubuntu. [...]
>
> Definitely a good idea.  Trawling bookshops and the web there is
> little info out there.
>
>>   [...] I am open
>>   to suggestions on what people would like to see included in it.
>
> I'd like to know what support there is for people who prefer large
> print.  Trying Ubuntu out a while back I had difficulties when I set
> the fonts to be large, and whilst I appreciated the existence of a
> magnifier, I felt it was rather limited in what it could do.
> Getting terminal windows setup for high contrast, low glare (Eg
> light on dark) with large print took a while as well, and I think
> when I tried Vim there was no colour support in the terminal I
> accessed.  Syntax highlighting is great help for trapping absent
> small punctuation chars like "`".
>
> Then there are the braille users.  [My braille is dead slow, and I
> don't know 8-dot anyway.]  This would be important for deafblind
> people as well.
>
> At present I won't be able to contribute anything to this, but the
> time will come.
>
>         Thank you,
>         Hugh
>
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