Well there's Oralux. Let's you try both Braille and software speech together. I've found it very helpful for learning emacs in a playpen -- a place where you can't mess up your real system. Also it's been interesting for me to run Oralux and look at system output like lsmod and dmesg to see what is being used from the kernel on my particular systems. I've also used oralux as a live rescue CD when I messed up my sound card drivers so badly that my system no longer talked. I understand you can even compile software using Oralux and store the results on a usb drive for transfering to another box. Probably I'll try that next. www.oralux.org --Debee
