I failed to get a talking installation of archlinux working this weekend. The disk during the install process talked and all instructions were followed as written in the arch wiki for the arch linux for the blind section but I didn't get a talking install once done. What has me puzzled about the architecture of archlinux is the use of /mnt where files get placed, yet mirror directories like /etc exist outside of /mnt. I went so far as to make braille notes of the extra commands needed before running the reboot command so have them down on paper.