Comment brlspeak (Score 1) 36
Hello,
A friend and I have been working for a year on a system that makes GNU/Linux Debian installable in autonomy by a blind person, and without partitioning. It's definitely for beginners, it uses ext2/3 and swap loopbacks on a fat32 partition, making it easy to install and remove if needed.
Everything (braille driver, language etc...) is preconfigured under dos (freedos), and when linux boots, it loads the appropriate braille driver
A group of testers have already gotten the system to run, although it should still be considered as a beta.
we provide three installation types, a minimum one (about 100MB, a full braille one, and a vocal+braille one, which will contain preconfigured emacspeak, festival, and mbrola)
The main goal is to be able to make a system people can quickly try on their own.
Future versions will include a basic network configurator, and may include fips, in order to install the same way but on real partitions.