On 19/08/11 19:33, Lisi wrote: > On Friday 19 August 2011 01:38:58 Scott Ferguson wrote: >> But most of the recommendations I get are from sighted people ie. >> Vinux is "supposed" to be good > > You will have noticed that I didn't mention it!
I did, the significance escaped me. Now I know better. > (The Adriane version of Knoppix is, of course, good because Adriane > Knopper helped to design it, and is partially sighted herself.) I did not know that. It was on my list of things to look up - but I'd "assumed" it was something to do with a European rocket.... Now I know. > Vinux is virtually useless for anyone totally blind, because it is > complex to get into speech; and useless for anyone partially sighted > because, although the desktop itself has been adapted (badly from my > point of view), no deeper layers are. So you click on an icon with a > label in a not utterly useless text label - and that is as far as you > get. The apps all display in the original tiny fonts. In fact, I > agree with you that it is unusable. I was over-dramatising - it has some uses:- ;drink coaster ;memory aid for recalling slavic words that end in hard consonants. ;decongestant (it loosens phlegm) ;could be useful if you suffer from very low blood pressure ;cure for constipation > > ArchLinux for the Blind I don't know. I must have a look at it. > > Lisi > > -- "I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action folks! You know he's got God on his side." ~ Bill Hicks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e4e3c19.3050...@gmail.com