ubuntu for the visually impaired?

[Kyle]

Vinux is indeed based on Ubuntu and looks pretty nice. But from what 
I've read so far, aside from adding Speakup and Emacspeak, of which I've 
only used Speakup, and I really don't use Speakup these days, Ubuntu and 
Vinux are really quite similar. That being said, I really enjoy trying 
new things, especially Ubuntu derivatives, which is why I'm using Linux 
Mint for now, so I'll probably download the live CD and take it for a 
spin. Who knows, it may even end up as my primary OS in the near future.

The one thin that could make Vinux better than Ubuntu for visually 
impaired users, but could also make it worse, is that Vinux is supposed 
to be the testing ground for blind accessibility in Ubuntu, or at least 
this was reported elsewhere. This means that Vinux will have all the 
latest and greatest accessibility out of the box with Ubuntu under the 
hood. The problem is that it also means that since the blind-friendly 
packages will be kept on the bleeding edge in order to test future 
Ubuntu accessibility, things may break more frequently, and that the 
things that don't break and work well will filter into future releases 
of Ubuntu. As a matter of fact, I believe Luke, who works on the 
accessibility of Ubuntu for blind and visually impaired users may also 
be one of the main people working on Vinux, so the filtering into Ubuntu 
I mentioned is very likely. Someone correct me if I misunderstood Luke's 
involvement in both projects.

~Kyle