Most suitable linux distro for a blind linux newbie?

[Samuel Thibault]

Hi,

Larissa Naber, le Sun 07 Aug 2005 07:17:52 +0200, a écrit :
> My friend Yasemin, who is blind, wants to give Linux a spin. Now I'm 
> looking for a suiteable distro. Although I have plenty of Linux 
> experience my knowledge concerning making linux work for ablind person 
> is somewhat limited. As of now, I spectaculariy failed to make my 
> emacspeak speak. Most of my own maschines are running either gentoo or 
> slackware and I used Suse in the past.
> 
> I believe that a distro with a bsd like port system such as debian or 
> gentoo is easiest to handle for a newbie. As gentoo tends to be a bit 
> volatile, I probably would rather pick a debian stable release. Anybody 
> out there using debian?

Probably more on debian-accessibility at lists.debian.org :)

> We allready tried a Suse (which refused to recognize the braille 
> terminal, a baum vario 40) and a oralux (which just would not talk on 
> her machine - I guess I'll have to put in a different sound card, 
> probably some windows only onboard chip)
> 
> It is not necessary that she'll be able to install the maschine all by 
> herlf (at least not yet).
> 
> Please let me know what you are using, and why you are using it.
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Larissa

Regards,
Samuel