Ubuntu Karmik in virtual machine

[Josh]

Hi,

I started Ubuntu Karmik in the virtual machine booting it from the .iso file I downloaded as a guest in windowws xp with 512mb of ram. I don't know when the boot screen appears because I'm blind and cannot see the screen. The only sighted person in my house is 2-years old, too young to read the screen and tell me what's going on. I need some audio queues to tell me when the boot screen coomes up, some shortcut to activate Orca. I got it talking from the live cd iso last night but that was by accident. I tried 3 or 4 times with no success. Can you please make Ubuntu as user-friendly as the mac is? accessibility should begin at the boot menu whether it be beeps to confirm the screen is up double beeps for keypresses different pitched beeps to let me know accessibility has been activated etcetera. I really want to install and try Ubuntu in the vm I created for it but cannot because I can't get Orca talking. last night it talked but it wanted me to log out and log back in. maybe when accessibility is selected different gnome sounds are also loaded or something. 

Josh

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