[wplug] Blind Linux

[Ben Beige]

O I forgot to say I'm converting my grandmother's old 200 MHz into this 
system, and I already talk w/ my sister about it she thiks it sounds neat, 
and the fact that she will not have to navigate a gui appeals to her.



At 01:23 AM 4/23/2003 -0400, you 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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