I know Arch Linux has a talking bootable CD available but that would
be for Entel processors so I dunno if it could be made to work on a
Powerbook G3.

Once you do have a working Linux system going on whatever machine, you
can start up gnome and use Orca and that is all keyboard accessible.

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 02:21:55AM -0700, Technomage_Hawke wrote:
> well,
> I tried adriane knoppix. it still has a lot of work needed on it. There 
> didn't appear to be a lot of documentation for using it in a shell 
> (especially where trying to get a screen review to work). The X desktop was 
> even worse, I couldn't access anything without a mouse (which I can't use). 
> 
> I need a version of linux that will work out of the box and be installable on 
> my old powerbook G3. I really would like to have that unit working. 
> 
> I am looking around for other distributions for the blind, but so far, a lot 
> of them require some visual assistance to install and configure (a definite 
> sticking point for me). I might need some help from the plug list on this. 
> otherwise, I have a paperweight for a portable that won't work with a later 
> version of OS X.
> 
> - Eric
> 
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