hi, a good portion of us are totally blind linux users. now depending on how much screen access you want to linux, there are a couple of options for you. you can either go the route of speakup, http://www.linux-speakup.org this screen review package for the moment supports a few hardware synthesisers the list of which can be found at the url above, there's work in progress for supporting festival which is a software synthesiser that can run on the GNU/Linux platform. there's emacspeak which I seem to have lost the url for, and brltty if you want to use a braille display. which again I can't find the url for. however, there's good and bad things about each but I can't comment on them as I haven't overly used either emacspeak or brltty. come to think of it, I ain't used yasr either. which is yet another screen access program. as you can see, there's a few routes you can take. for my money however, if you want to know what happens and be able to perform a full install right from partition to format to instal and configuration, my money's with speakup or brltty. hth in some small way anyawys. Thus spake Jes and Harley, > Hi all, > My name is Jes, from the U.S.A and I am very interested in the Linux operating system. Windows is ok for what it is, but I've had > more trouble than its worth in windows and I just am interested in experimenting and making a decision about whether I want Linux > as an option. If any of you want to relate some of your experiences in using Linux please send them too the following email > address: > jesman598@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Thanks, and I hope to learn a lot on this list. By the way, I am also totally blind> Take care > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Shaun Oliver "Becareful of the toes u step on today, they maybe connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow!" EMAIL: shaun_oliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ: 76958435 YAHOO: blindman01_2000 MSN: blindman_2001@xxxxxxxxxxx AIM: captain nemo 200 IRC: irc.awesomechat.net:6666 IRCNICK: blindman CHANNELS: #awesomeradio #mircpopup-magic #linux #help #ourworld #audiofile #mauisun _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list