On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 06:49:39PM -0700, Gaijin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 04:21:27AM +0000, Jason White wrote: > > I've recently been experimenting with SpeakUp, motivated by the (temporary) > > unavailability of both of my braille displays. > > Exactly. As an ex-Debian fan, I can no longer recommend Debian > for accessibility support. It's been a constant headache from day one, > being the last distro out there to add in accessibility support, and > IMHO, will continue to be that way.. Personally, I'm moving on to I couldn't agree with that. Debian provides brltty, orca and now speakup modules, and just recently yasr. Emacspeak is also in the repo... So, getting a braille system up and running is easy! A talking system isn't that hard, now with the speakup modules in aptitude. With samuel's new installer, which I am waiting to try, I think this would provide a very easy way for someone to get a talking system! Orca is easy to install as well, so many options... I would put debian right up there for it's accessibility. > GRML or Ubuntu as soon as I can manage it. I've had enough of Debian, FWIW. GRML, I can't comment on, but heard it has good accessibility. Ubuntu is good as well, when I have used it, not as good as debian though as it's more based on a gui, and the howtos are more based on the gui. I would stick to debian, but a distrobution choice is a personal taste thing. Daniel.
