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Re: unique install question?

Hi lisi,
Thank you!
what your post shows, and what I honestly stopped trying to express is this. 
There is no such thing as a so called one size fits all blind user.
Like every single aspect of the human experience, sight loss is a 100% individual thing. Just like sight presence. to claim that everyone uses anything the same is well... as nonsensical as claiming every rose is the same, or that everyone paints like Picasso...and not everyone cares for him! a buffet of options with an individual deciding what works from them uniquely is a far more productive stance than the efforts at uniformity. I realize those efforts are rooted in the human condition called insecurity. The fear of appreciating both what makes us treasured individual works of human art, and what we share as humans in a common way. But we have overcome limited thinking about others things before and can again. I appreciate the motivation behind vinux, but frankly feel like much comparative conversation that it does the individual a disservice. after all, my working from the accessibility is the same dictionary is how I got into the install mess I was in to start with...lol. 
Back to my seat in the corner,
Karen

On Tue, 26 Jun 2012, Lisi wrote:


On Wednesday 13 June 2012 19:55:19 Julien Claassen wrote:

Knoppix did support blind users as well. There is Vinux, which is a Debian
version specially compiled for blind users.


Julien -

Vinux is based on Ubuntu, not Debian, and I do not like it.  I am partially
sighted, not fully blind, but could not get on with it at all.  The large
icons (well, largish) and text are skin deep only, and all menus and things
were running in the usual tiny print and were therefore unusable.  I also
thought that its speech was bad, and was thankful that I didn't need to use
it.

I found Knoppix-Adriane vastly better.  Highly usable with adequate speech and
a lot of text (so much easier to work with without pictures etc. messing up
the text image).  The version I saw was basically sans serif black on white.
Great for me, though I realise that it would be less helpful to some others.
I did not try to run it in speech because I am still very incompetent at
that.

Klaus Knopper wrote Knoppix-Adriane for, and with the collaboration of, his
wife Adriane, who is partially sighted.  I have version 6.2.1, and like it,
but have not yet looked at version 7.x.x .

Lisi


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