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

[Hugh Sasse]

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