Accessible install in next release of Ubuntu

[Maurice McCarthy]

Paul,

As a sighted person I was having trouble getting audacity verbal
recording to work on Lucid Lynx until I chanced across Vinux (Linux
for the Visually Impaired based on Lucid Lynx.) Vinux comes
preconfigured in ways I found very useful. It is also the test bed for
the accessibility options in Ubuntu. But this is a stable release.

If you do nothing the Vinux-3.0 DVD boots into the live mode with a 10
second delay. Booting took about 2-3 minutes but there was no sound
until the Desktop was up and Orca was launched. There are live CD,
live DVD and live USB versions. These may be downloaded from

http://vinux.org.uk/downloads.html

Here is the explanation from http://www.vinux.org.uk/about.html

Vinux is a remastered version of the popular Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
distribution optimised for the needs of blind and partially sighted
users. By default it provides three screen-readers, two full-screen
magnifiers, global font-size and colour changing facilities as well as
support for USB Braille displays. When you boot the live CD you will
be greeted by the Orca screen-reader/magnifier which enables you to
navigate the graphical Gnome desktop using keybindings, as well as
providing full screen-magnification if required.  For those who prefer
to work in a simple text based console there is the Speakup
screen-reader and as an emergency backup we have installed YASR, a
hybrid screen-reader which can be run in either console mode or in a
virtual terminal on the Gnome desktop. A second full-screen magnifier
is provided by the Compiz Window Manager, which uses 3D technology to
allow you to magnify and navigate the whole screen  using the mouse,
or move a resizable virtual magnifying glass around the screen. The
Gnome  Desktop Manager itself provides you with global keybindings to
change the font size and/or the colour scheme on the fly. Finally,
Brltty provides Grade 1/2 Braille output via the Orca screen-reader.
By default all of the screen-readers use the same Espeak Speech
Synthesizer via Speech-Dispatcher which provides a seamless experience
for the user when switching from one screen-reader to another!

Best Wishes
Maurice