Kendell Clark

yup, emacspeak is great. I've recently had it added to the manjaro repositories, which means sonar users can now grab it without having to build it. Also the alter aeon sound pack for the tintin mud client, since a lot of blind users like playing that particular multi user dungeon

I could not agree more. I've been in that situation for what feels like forever. I file the bugs, I follow up, and all the while I'm treated to indifference by the greater blind community. Why are you bothering? Just use windows or mac, they just work. After you hear that a coupld hundred times it starts to chip away at you, or it did me.There are some great people in the linux blind community and I always look to them when I get discouraged. I stand by what I've written in my articles. Linux *is* a viable option. You just have to be willing to give it a chance.