[wplug] Blind Linux

[John Strange]

BTW,

I think the date is off on your system, it's showing as April 23, unless
you are way on the other side fo the world! :)

- John
On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 01:23, Ben Beige wrote:
> Hello Folks,
> 	I'm looking to set up a system for my younger sister (almost 13) who 
> happens to be blind. I want to use Linux, since it will be much easier for 
> her than windows in the long run.  I've hear of the BLinux project and 
> tried to look into it, it seems to rely on emacspeaks (emacs w/ voice 
> synth) but I'm not entirely sure on where to begin, for the most part she's 
> want to IM (bonim is a console based AIM client I believe) email, and do 
> home work(well likely use emacs if emacspeaks is her voice program), and 
> surf the web (lynx/links). I just don't really know where to start w/ 
> setting this all up, what distro is the most user friendly for this and was 
> wondering if anyone had input/experience w/ this.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben
> 
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