Hello All,
I am about to set up a USB stick as a bootable Linux installation for someone else who is blind. I am aware of the Adrienne audio desktop that comes with Knoppix, and that there is the Orca screenreader that some here use. I would appreciate any comments, recommendations or other suggestions, along with comments on pitfalls. One consideration is that they cannot use a braille output, they are a diabetic, and the regular pricking the finger to test the glucose levels makes a braille output device impracticable.
If there are comments about enabling audio at login, or boot time, and comments about various loaders that might be relevant, that too would be appreciated, this will be my first foray in putting any Linux onto a USB stick. I would not normally consider autologin, but there is reason that it might have merit for this scenario.
There's also Vinux - vinuxproject.org. I haven't followed development there for about a year, but it was a good strong community then. Cheers, -- Trish Fraser, VVMZ4 91L2V -35.67910, 142.66607 Fri Dec 28 14:25:41 EST 2012 GNU/Linux 1997-2012 #283226 counter.li.org cassiopeia up 5 hour(s), 53 min. Mageia release 2 (Official) for x86_64 kernel 3.3.8-desktop-2.mga2