what wouldbe the most blind friendly distribution of linux

[Krishnakant Mane]

With my experience on big deployments of Free Software and Free OS like 
GNU/Linux, I second the vote for Vinux.
Here in India Linux is being excepted in Industry and public 
administration big time.
I have personally worked on such projects and till Vinux was really good 
at it, I used and recommended Ubuntu.
While I still recommend Ubuntu to sighted people and Organisations, 
Vinux is best for the blind.
Infact Vinux is a remake of Ubuntu itself.
We are running classes for blind in various parts of India and now all 
the labs are slowly shifting from Ubuntu to Vinux.
Many blind people have also got jobs due after doing these courses.
Right now I also know a few blind people who have beocme hardware 
vendres and they sell computers with linux pre installed.
The best part is as already mentioned,the Vinux comes up talking with Orca.
Its also worth noting that Vinux, unlike Ubuntu has the patched version 
of Firefox.
The patched version of Firefox has a few accessibility bug fixes made by 
Bill.
So all in all Vinux is for all blind people beginners or experts.
I use only Vinux all the day.
I don't dual boot my machine and given my responsible job, I never feel 
I am missing some thing by not using proprietory OS.

Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Wednesday 04 August 2010 01:00 PM, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> As others have said, for now, go for Vinux.
> You can also download a usb stick version.
> By default Vinux comes up talking in orca, the graphical  screen reader
> and with speakup in the console.
> The default synthesizer is espeak.
> Many people prefer to buy what is now called voxin, but was known as IBM
> Viavoice ttsynth eloquence over the years.
> I would suggest that you try to use espeak for a week or so before
> concluding that you need another synth.
> I am so used to using espeak now that I never use ibm viavoice even it is
> on my machine.
> Regards, Willem
>
>
> On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Zdenek Vopat wrote:
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>> Hello listers:
>> what would be the most blind friendly distribution of linux?
>> I am thinking of getting the the world of liinux and looking for  the most blind friendly distribution. I would probably use it with a netbook maybe with my asus eeepc1000, I also need the be able to convert my work to ms office and vice versa, maybe get into some other stuff as well. so what distribution aand software you would recommend. I would also use brltty 4.2 probably either with focus blue braille display or brailliant braille display and also which speech software you'd recommend?
>> Many thanks.
>> Zdenek
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