Re:Don't forget Emacspeak (Score 1)

I also have a friend who uses Emacspeak and loves it, but as someone else has mentioned, there's a lot of learning involved. For someone who's already familiar with an MS-DOS screen reader, Speakup is a lot more familiar than Emacspeak. I know some people are coming over to Linux from DOS, and they want to run PINE, Lynx, and whatever else they used on their shell account at their ISP. While Emacs has a terminal emulator, Emacspeak has poor support for it in my opinion, so if you're going to use Emacspeak exclusively, it's much better to learn to use VM (the mail reader), W3 (the Web browser), and so on under Emacs. So for people who are laready comfortable with a DOS screen reader and a Unix shell account, Speakup would be the best option, in my opinion. Also, you can't run Emacspeak on a Linux boot/root disk, so unless a blind person has a screen reader like Speakup, they need someone who can see to help them with the installation. The same thing applies if something goes wrong in the boot process and they can't get to a login prompt.