[Wolves] anyone had any joy with blind or deaf user using linux

[Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint]

i am on another up hill struggle trying to explain why linux would be
a good solution to my blind employer. My main job is driver but with
my techie knowledge i am also helping with stuff that would be very
time consuming for her to do. Such as installing setup software , all
sorts of house keeping which there is a lot with windows which is very
time consuming to get the system running at a good speed and no
lag(which could see as a major problem when the sytem is trying to
read everything out on the screen its most weird experience the
computer speaking everything on the screen)

Anyone i have been looking at some accessibility with linux.

Maybe jumping in feet first with BRLTTY made her scared that it was
only command line util which it is but it gives API to orca (screen
reader)

I think the damage already done.
when she reply with this "The Linux website is very out of date as
most of the Braille products mentioned are no longer used."

That cos the kit she talking about supporting is out of date to honest
and she not seeing the truth. Thats why the supplier wants the
customer to buy the new one with bluetooth and all the drivers for
windows 8 and above etc. Seems like going to be a hard battle and
steep learning curve for use both.

but when she makes decision on single sentence

here reply to her expert on screen readers

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Wilson-Hind [mailto:roger at screenreader.net]
Sent: 11 December 2015 10:50
Subject: RE: FW: Braille Displays with Apple

No don't go down that route.  It is for techies not ordinary blind users.

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maybe i can show her it working on linux laptop.

this customer is 1 of kind with being both blind and deaf.

most of the time it will be just blind customers and they will need
some speaking software , she has experience of NVDA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NonVisual_Desktop_Access

being it open source i thought she had some knowledge about the
concepts and also being a programmer from years back.

"NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA)is a free, open source, portablescreen
reader for Microsoft Windows. The project was started by Michael
Curran in 2006."