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= Installing Fedora with Orca
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Thanks for choosing to install Fedora. The first thing you'll need to
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do is put an installer onto a removable disk, like a DVD or Flash
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Drive. For maximum accessibility, choose Fedora's Mate spin, found at
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https://spins.fedoraproject.org/mate-compiz/download/index.html(The
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Fedora Mate download page). Follow a normal guide on flashing the
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downloaded image to a flash drive or DVD, and prepare to restart the
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computer to begin the installation.
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To install Fedora Mate, hereafter referred to as just "Fedora", you'll
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need to start your computer with the installer's drive set as the
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drive the computer starts from. Consult your computer's manual for how
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to do this, but it is usually done by pressing the power button while
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the computer is still turned off, then quickly pressing a key, like
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F2, F8, F10, or F12, rapidly until the "boot manager" appears.
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You'll need either sighted assistance, or an app on a smart phone that
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continuously reads text (like Seeing AI on the Apple App Store, or
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Google Lookout from the Google Play store), in order to somewhat know
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what's on the screen of this menu. If you have no other drives, local
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or network, connected to the computer, you may be able to press Down
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arrow or Right arrow several times to get to the last item of the
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menu, which should be your external drive, and press Enter to boot
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from it.
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Now, with the continuous text scanner still on, you'll be in a menu
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for starting the installer. Pressing Enter should start it. Leave the
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continuous text scanning on until you hear the current date. Now, you
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can put down the phone; we won't need it anymore for the installation.
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At this time, you are at the live installation screen, where you can
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enable Orca, the screen reader. To do this, hold down the Alt key, the
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Windows key (which in Linux is called the Super key), and press the S
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key, releasing all keys afterwards. So, the key to press is *Alt +
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Windows + S*. From now on, though, the Windows key will be called the
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Super key, as that's it's name in Linux. You'll hear "screen reader
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on", in a robotic, British voice.
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== Navigating Linux
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The Fedora installer uses a graphical interface, similar to the
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interfaces on other operating systems. Navigating it is similar to
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navigating other interfaces, with only a few differences. Use the Tab
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key to move from one control to another. Use Shift + Tab to navigate
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backward.
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In text fields, use the Left and Right arrow keys to navigate by character, Control
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with Left and Right arrow to navigate by word, and Up and Down arrow
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to navigate by line. Use Home to go to the beginning of the line, End
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to go to the end of the line, and Control Home and Control End to go
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to the beginning and end of a text field. Use arrow keys to navigate
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lists, and the Space bar or Enter key to activate buttons, check
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boxes, and so on.
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All that should be familiar to those who have used other operating
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systems. The differences are slight. In most programs, to move from
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one area of the screen to another, like a large list to the next group
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of controls, press Control + Tab. To move backward the same way, use
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Control + Shift + Tab. This will be useful in the installer. When a
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control cannot be used, you're probably used to hearing "disabled" or
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"dimmed". In Linux, Orca says that they are "grayed," meaning "grayed out."
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Now that you know basic navigation, let's move on to installing the
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system.
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