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Installer guide for Accessible-Coconut 20.04

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          The installation process is fully accessible to a visually challenged user. Before you start, please note down carefully the partitions on your hard disk, their sizes and the operating systems residing on them. You will need at least 13-15 GB disk space to install the Accessible-Coconut. If it is not there, you will have to delete or resize an existing partition to free the required disk space. So decide in advance which partitions you could delete or resize if required. Also notes for installing in UEFI enabled systems is given at the end of this guide.  1. Insert the DVD and restart the computer. For a visually impaired he should change the Bios option to boot from cd in advance at the time of the purchase of the computer itself so that he will be totally enabled in his installation process. If one has not done so in advance, seek the help of a sighted guide for the following. Looking at the screen a message indicating the button for entering boot options menu will be
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Accessible coconut version 20.04 donors list.

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 Abhishek T P - 1000 ₹ Ajayan Araken - 500 ₹ Ameen Zaid - 500 ₹ Anas p - 500 ₹ Anoop O -1000 ₹ Haneefa V M - 500 ₹ Kallayi Vision - 1000 ₹ Muhammed S Amen - 500 ₹ Noushad Abdullakkuty - 500 ₹ Noushad M P - 300 ₹ Rajan E - 1000 ₹ Sajid M M - 500 ₹ Shihab C P - 500 ₹ Velayudhan C P - 350 ₹ Vinod B - 1000 ₹
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How to connect with coconut community?

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Google  group link:  https://groups.google.com/ forum/#\!forum/accessible- coconut Telegram group link:   http://www.telegram.me/ accessible_coconut
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softwares shipped with AC 20.04

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      SMPlayer, VLC - Play audio and video Pluma         - Text Editing and Viewing Lios          - Document scanning and reading Solution(OCR) Orca          - Screen Reader XBoard        - Playing Chess Tuxtype       - Game for learning and practicing Typing and Braille Layout Tuxmath       - Game for practicing basic mathematics Firefox       - Web Browsing Sharada-Braille-Writer - Simple text editor for typing in six key Braille mode IBus-Braille  - System wide six or eight key Braille mode for typing text KDEConnect    - Connect smartphones to your desktop devices LMMS          - Produce music with your computer Instruments   - Play Instruments via LMMS Audacity      - Sound recording and editing Curlew        - Audio Converter Daisy-Player  - Play daisy audio formats eBook-Speaker - Read ebook aloud CPU-X         - View your system configuration Onboard       - View onscreen keyboard Artha         - English offline Dictionary Libreoffice   - Complete office suit Simple-Scan   - Si
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Major features of Accessible-Coconut.

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 Accessible-Coconut team has made a serious effort to address the major challenges caused by visual impairment. As we are aware a visually challenged person face grave difficulties in   reading and writing in the sighted way. Both problems are solved in an ingenious manner. 1 . The screen reader used in AC is Orca and the speech engine is E speak. User can opt for other speech engines like i.b.m. via voice or Cepstral etc.   2. Linux intelligent OCR solution Lios. Lios is a software solution developed by the Coconut team to address the reading problem of the visually challenged. One can read printed books in almost all the Indian languages including Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, and of course English,using a scanner and the laptop.   All the libraries in the country are opened before the visually impaired. Lios has the capacity to convert   text or image, PDF in to text and also convert text in to audio files.   2 . Second major challenge is that of wr
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Advantages of Accessible-Coconut.

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1 . Ac is license free and open-source.     It means that the operating system is freely distributive and modifiable. As the source code is available user can make any change  as he wishes.   2. It is a virus free environment.   3. Accessible-Coconut can be installed along with any other operating system and again one can use it and test it in a live mode that is without installing.   4 . A visually impaired person has the speech support even at the time of installation that is one can install AC in an eyes free manner.
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What is Accessible-Coconut?

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  Accessible-Coconut is an operating system like windows 7 or windows 10. A ccessible- C oconut (AC) is a derivative of Ubuntu GNU/Linux operating system customized for the visually impaired community in an inclusive way. Latest version is   Accessible-Coconut 18.4.6 freely downloadable from Sourceforge.net .     Download in Torrent
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