I have no idea how many people use or know about this Thunderbird extension, but since it is a Thunderbird extension and not a screen reader add-on I thought I'd mention it

Agreed. I've band members for nor following the rules on my own lists. High jacking is completely not aloud on my lists. Doing this once will get you band for good. Also your subject and message

even espeak has many terrible and aweful voices, but its advantage is freedom of selecting variants with lots of choices. i realy love iven3 and i believe that its the best voice in the world which is

did someone tried zorinOS? i read that it is designed for windows and mac migrate to linux and it has orca. i wish that if someone used it and has experience in this regard, please email me. -- By

You don't have to rely on your brain. You can make notes of them and keep them in written form, if you read Braille and if you wish, or in a file on your computer, which I think should be password

Finally! this is great news! I had asked years ago when this list was on a different forum to change the default variant and nothing was done then. I was so tired of telling people about NVDA and

I tried Ubuntu 16.04. When I realized I wasn't a fan of the gui layout I switched to Debian and mostly used the terminal for server related things. It was a lot nicer when I could ssh in. I

What version of Linux did you try. I have used most of the Debian distros. 73 N2DYN Angelo

This was 2 months ago. I tried it with all the basic tasks for a week straight on an AMD fx8350. It was doable, but lots of sluggishness where there didn't need to be, lots of things

A more biased statement such as this I've not heard in quite some time. There are multiple iterations of linux desktops, just because one doesn't work doesn't mean they're all inherently bad.

Clearly you haven’t looked it lately. Orca is updated on a regular basis, and now works quite well. If you don’t use it on a regular basis, you have no idea what successes the Orca group has

Actually, I do not use espeak and hate it... I hope in the future nvda devs will use another synth as nvda default and not Espeak which is really really bad.

The gui version of linux is similar to windows 95, featuring crashes. Nobody really works on Orca because 0.001% of the user base is visually impaired. Things will not read, you are forced

it is inevitable, though there is a lot you can do with the GUI as others have rightly said.

I don’t have issues with the terminal. I use Emacs for goodness sake, and love most console programs, but most users find the terminal complicated and obscure, and I can tell you that you will need

Nothing wrong with all that, it just means Linux or any other OS is not for you. Glenn

That is what got me into Linux, that is, the frustration of doing this in Windows. Maybe there are better Windows options now, but 10 years ago I don't think was much without a big purchase. Glenn

This is good, as whenever I install it for people who are new to a screenreader, I have to apologize for eSpeak, even though it is totally intelligible to me. It is not my synth of choice, but it

So long as you trust yourself never to make a mistake when you have admin / root privilege on the machine, then by all means use your own computer in this way. However, there are good reasons why

You will do Internet and eMail with the GUI in Linux. If there was more command-line options in Windows, I would do that more too, but you can do almost everything in the GUI in Linux. I choose to do