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I got my computer back with my discovery of Jaws and Window
Eyes in 2000. They were only demo’s but it got me back up to speed
enough to get through the computer training course at the Hines VA Blind
Rehabilitation Center in 2001. I came home from Hines with a new Dell Dimension
4100 with Magic screen magnification on it. This and a lot of road kill allowed
me to learn computer repair on my own. I have reached the point I am
comfortable building my own from the ground up. I’ve had a peek at Linux through my hand held
magnifier and a Knoppix 3.3 Live Cd. The Knoppix 3.4 “Speakup” Iso
I downloaded would go into a kernel panic and crash before reaching the desktop
which left me with the feeling I was trapped in Windows by my impairment. Looking
for an alternate OS for my newest build, I downloaded and installed Ubuntu 7.1.
The alternate version included Kmag, which I found difficult to use. Since then
I’ve come across Linux Mint which includes Orca. I enabled Orca for the
install and had issues with the default “ I’m not a programmer, and wouldn’t be much help
on that end of development, but I am able to install my own programs and would
be glad to test, make bug reports, and give my own personal views and
suggestions, if that wil be helpful I will be glad to try to make a
contribution to your project. Jeff Malewski jmlwsk toast net |