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= Installing Fedora with Orca

Thanks for choosing to install Fedora. The first thing you'll need to
do is put an installer onto a removable disk, like a DVD or Flash
Drive. For maximum accessibility, choose Fedora's Mate spin, found at
https://spins.fedoraproject.org/mate-compiz/download/index.html(The
Fedora Mate download page). Follow a normal guide on flashing the
downloaded image to a flash drive or DVD, and prepare to restart the
computer to begin the installation.

To install Fedora Mate, hereafter referred to as just "Fedora", you'll
need to start your computer with the installer's drive set as the
drive the computer starts from. Consult your computer's manual for how
to do this, but it is usually done by pressing the power button while
the computer is still turned off, then quickly pressing a key, like
F2, F8, F10, or F12, rapidly until the "boot manager" appears.

You'll need either sighted assistance, or an app on a smart phone that
continuously reads text (like Seeing AI on the Apple App Store, or
Google Lookout from the Google Play store), in order to somewhat know
what's on the screen of this menu. If you have no other drives, local
or network, connected to the computer, you may be able to press Down
arrow or Right arrow several times to get to the last item of the
menu, which should be your external drive, and press Enter to boot
from it.

Now, with the continuous text scanner still on, you'll be in a menu
for starting the installer. Pressing Enter should start it. Leave the
continuous text scanning on until you hear the current date. Now, you
can put down the phone; we won't need it anymore for the installation.

Now, you are at the live installation screen, where you can enable
Orca, the screen reader. To do this, hold down the Alt key, the
Windows key (which in Linux is called the Super key), and press the S
key, releasing all keys afterwards. You'll hear "screen reader on", in
a robotic, British voice.