ubuntu for the visually impaired?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, Jordon Bedwell wrote:

> On 7/26/10 4:31 PM, chris hallsworth wrote:
> > Hi all, I use Vinux inside a virtual machine and use Windows as my
> > primary operating system. I think Vinux is an excellent version of
> > Ubuntu for the visually impaired and I look forward to further
> > developments with the project. The place to download Vinux is
> > www.vinux.org.uk. Standard Ubuntu can be used by the visually
> > impaired, however Vinux has the visually impaired configuration
> > set up by default. So there is no need to set the accessibility
> > options in Orca like you have to for Standard Ubuntu.
>
> Your top posting aside, I want to thank you for sending a link and
> pointing out Vinux, I will be installing it today and doing an audit
> to see if it's legit as I've been looking for a solution to give to
> people who ask me about Visually impaired solutions and using a
> pre-built solution would be far faster for me than setting up Ubuntu
> to do it, would save me about an hour or so.

  i actually found vinux shortly after i asked the question here, and
have already downloaded it.  could you post your results after you
check it out?  since i've never worked with that type of linux distro
before, i have no idea how the quality of such things is measured.

rday

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