Speakup enabled Distros for Blind Technicians
bigd
bigd.vi.guy at gmail.com
Mon Jan 16 22:10:45 EST 2012
Hi,
If you want a small cd (about 120 or so mb), the Gentoo minimal cd's could work. They have speakup and espeakup now.
HTH,
KJ4UFX
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On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 01:31:49PM -0800, Robert cole
wrote:
> Hello, everyone.
>
> I do a lot of PC repair work for different people (friends, family,
> etc), and I was wondering if there are any live Linux distributions
> which are Speakup-enabled that would aid me in this task. The only one
> that comes to mind right now is ADRIANE Knoppix, but I believe it makes
> use of Orca.
>
> I don't really need a GUI, although it can be helpful at times, but I am
> just curious to see if there is anyone else on the list who knows of any
> distros for this sort of task that could be run from a CD or USB key
> that have Speakup readily available.
>
> I am still a bit new to screen reading software, but it is sure making
> my life much easier. What little vision I have seems to get much more
> easily strained nowadays.
>
> Thanks for any input.
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