raspberry pi for screen reader users

[Linux for blind general discussion]

I didn't purchase a raspberry Pi yet, I'm about to take that step.  Your
response has provided a bit more information and I was also told it
would be possible for me to purchase last year's model and all I would
loose would be some input options as a result of not purchasing the
current model.

On Mon, 3 Sep 2018, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 15:45:50
> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: raspberry pi for screen reader users
>
> Which Raspberry Pi do you have? As far as I know, there are still 3 versions
> being sold: The original Raspberry Pi model B, the Pi2 and the Pi3, all at the
> same price. Did you only purchase the computer,or did you get it in a kit with
> an SD card, a case and possibly a reader? The Pi3 is the only model with
> onboard wifi and bluetooth, but its wifi only supports the 2.4GHz band. That
> said, most routers support both 2.4GHz and 5.0GHz bands, so the onboard wifi
> should still work. If you did buy your Raspberry Pi in a kit, the OS on the
> MicroSD will depend on the kit you purchased. However, although I believe the
> kit I have initially had Ubuntu, I'm not sure what is on other MicroSD cards.
> It will be better to rewrite it with a different OS. Instructions are
> available for ArchLinuxARM on its website
>
> https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/broadcom/raspberry-pi-2
>
> which also works on the Raspberry Pi 3. The tarball download includes no
> screen reader, but you can install packages over ssh fairly easily. You will
> probably want the MATE desktop and the Orca screen reader. It runs a bit
> slowly on these machines, because they have fairly slow processors and less
> RAM than other similar machines, but if you get zramswap from the AUR, you can
> add a little swapspace in memory that will speed things up a little. If you
> don't want/like the Arch philosophy or the rolling release model, where there
> is no set timetable for complete OS releases, and each package gets upgraded
> when it is released, I believe there may be Ubuntu releases that include Orca
> as well, although I don't have a link at this time. In all cases, you will
> want to either use your wired speakers and mask pulseaudio to keep it
> disabled, or use your USB speakers, as Pulseaudio remains badly broken on the
> Raspberry Pi's own sound hardware.
>
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