This is Luke Yelavich, reply below. On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 09:23:19PM AEST, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Screen readers cannot give boot messages anyways, with software speech. Actually, with things set up correctly to allow the screen reader to come up as early as possible, yes they can. Speakup can do this if working with a hardware speech synth from very very early on, which is why so many people like it, but there are ways and means to do siumilar with pure software, if you are willing to make your initramfs a little larger. Luke _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list