question

Bill Cox waywardgeek at gmail.com
Wed Dec 1 20:52:24 EST 2010


I'm going to do my standard shameless plug for Vinux, which is a
distro built on to of Ubuntu for the express purpose of advancing
development of accessible technologies.  Vinux 3.0, built from Ubuntu
Lucid, is popular, and in my still fairly uneducated opinion, the best
current version of Linux for the general blind population.  However, I
will also acknowledge that Adrian Knopix is the easiest to use for
blind beginners, while blind power programmers seem to prefer
emacspeak on the consoles.

That said, most blind Vinux users seem to spend most of their time in
speakup on the consoles.  I think the value of learning how to work in
the consoles with speakup is huge.

Bill

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Charlie Dorff <cy41169 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> All gnome linux comes with orca which is a pretty easy screen reader to learn to use. I would also recommend you start with Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a great Linux distro for beginners. If you can not burn a CD of Ubuntu or you Internet speed is not fast enough to download you can request a free CD at the Ubuntu website. If you have any more questions do not hesitarte to ask. Good Luck to you.
>
>
> --- On Wed, 12/1/10, Adrián Mena <adrianm7m at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Adrián Mena <adrianm7m at gmail.com>
> Subject: question
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 4:36 PM
>
> Hi my name is Adrian, I am writing from Costa Rica.
> My question is that I use Windows but I am very interested in changing
> to Linux. However, I do not know how and where to start.  For example,
> how can I install the os with voice response since the very beginning?
> I read that I can use speak up, however, it seems a little complicated.
> Thank you for your help.
>
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