ArchLinux tutorials, and the state of accessibility in linux

[Arthur Pirika]

Hi,
First, I'm playing with arch again, and still loving it, I think of it 
as slackware, done right. Not that slackware's bad, by any stretch, it 
was my first distro, after all. Anyway, I'm about to record a 
step-by-step install guide, similar to what Michael Whapples did quite 
some time ago, now that arch's install methods changed again.

I was then thinking of expanding it into something like the really old 
shows that featured on main menu, way back in 2000, through 2002 or so. 
So it would be a podcast of getting around, and doing common tasks in 
linux, focusing on the terminal at first. Thoughts or feedback?

Second, what are peoples experience with tools like emacspeak, 
speech-dispatcher, and gnome/KDE accessibility, things you don't hear a 
lot about these days? Are they still viable options for access, 
especially emacspeak?

Thanks,
Arthur