The only way you could get the rescue or "live" CD without buying Slackware is to have somebody who already has it burn you a copy. I think this would be legal since the OS is under the GNU. Just to satisfy your curiosity, the Live CD does have not only Speakup but Brltty. I've only used it once when repartitioning. If you are interested in rescue type applications, have a look at tomsrbt. There is a Speakup-enhanced version on the Speakup ftp site in the disks directory. This rescue disk has most anything you need and there is also a set of Parted disks there, but they are a bit outdated. However, they should still work.
