I think the most accessible installs take advantage of Speakup and use
of the command line environment to get things going.  That's what I
like about Slackware, ArchLinux and Debian. I've used these three
distros at one time or another.  Now I'm using Arch.  as a further
point, all three of these distros I was able to install with *ANY*
sighted assistance.  I believe the same can be said for Fedora but I
have never personally tried that one.  For speech enabled Fedora, one
needs to use their custom boot disk from 
http://www.speakupmodified.org 
Bill Acker maintains it and he's a sharp guy; I've known him for
years.

Again I appologize for not knowing the fait of PPC support but the
above stuff applies for sure to Intel environments.

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:07:17PM -0700, Technomage Hawke wrote:
> not sure on that myself. 
> 
> I do know that there are about 4 official distributions that will even admit to supporting a ppc: ubuntu, opensuse, fedora, archlinux. of these, only 3 are accessible with minimal setup and initial sighted assistance. I am working on a procedure for each one that should allow the blind user to install on a simple install (no multiboot or multiOS systems, just a wipe/format/install). I am digging into whether these can be set to speech on boot (boot prompt with options). if so, this will speed up operations for the bloind user significantly. 
> 
> as an alternative. there is adriane knoppix (latest release is 6.2. its a basic live desktop with gnome and orca. it will work from cd or install to HD for faster operations. it features a text only interface that offers several options. 
> 
> -Eric
> 
> On Nov 10, 2010, at 6:16 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, dunno about emacspeak on that but I was originally thinking of
> > running Speakup in the kernel or as kernel modules.  But again, I
> > don't know if the speakup modules can run on other platforms such as
> > Power PC.
> > 
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