I'm not sure, but prefer to stack the deck in my favor with hardware and software installations. According to emmaubuntus documentation, speech is done with Gspeech but that doesn't work as a boot parameter or running it after booting. The documentation has more web garbage in it than text too. Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Sun, 12 Mar 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hello, > > are you really sure it's necessary to use a specialized Linux > distribution just because of the computer's age? > > I mean, Linux is pretty lightweight even on the flagship distros, in > most cases, you're completely fine with them and can benefit from their > accessibility support. > > I've recently installed Ubuntu Mate 22.04 64-bit on my cca. 15 years old > laptop, and I was very pleased with the experience. > > Indeed, it was not as lightning as my current-one, though honestly, I > had a feeling most of the delay came actually from the physical > keyboard, which is very sturdy compared to today's standards, and takes > quite an effort to type on. > > But even with this slowdown, the experience was still quite fluent. > > > Best regards > > > Rastislav > > > D?a 12. 3. 2023 o 0:31 Linux for blind general discussion nap?sal(a): > > I downloaded the latest release. It has espeak-ng on it but doesn't have > > orca. I couldn't figure out how to get espeakup-ng to come up on boot so > > I'd have a talking install at least. > > For those that don't yet know emmaubuntus is a distribution aimed at > > under-powered and refurbished machines stuff that would otherwise end up > > in the land fills. It's for beginners to linux and the only reason I'm > > doing anything with it at all is to possibly help a remote sighted person > > migrate one or more old windows machines to this version of linux and she > > hasn't used linux yet. It offers xfce and lxqt as desktops. If orca > > isn't in the repository being used it ought to get in the repository so > > the desktops get accessible for screen reader users. > > > > > > > > Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in > > defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > > -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) > > > > . > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list