I will admit straight off that these are my findings and opinions after only a brief time of using Fedora 12. You may have different results or find that things work better. But, let's dive straight in. Was the installer accessible? No. Not from what I could tell. The live CD ran for me but obviously, it would require a log out for the gnome accessibility settings to be applied so in a live CD environment, that's out of the question. When trying to make a USB live environment, the system loaded, I applied the gnome accessibility settings however after a restart, the USB key would not boot. It's surprising and currently unexplained, but I'm not sure why it suddenly stopped booting after I made a minor change that shouldn't have anything to do with the boot process at all! I also made sure to leave enough space available so as retaining settings and a limited amount of files was supported. So, to install, I needed to get sighted assistance. Fortunately for me, that's no major problem. After installation, the first thing I did was install ESpeak. That's more prefered for me compared to the default of festival. This was incredibly simple. simply type the following command: yum install espeak gnome-speech-espeak That's all there is too it. Obviously, you need to be logged into the terminal as root for that to work for you. After you've downloaded and installed Espeak, restart Orca and select ESpeak as the synthesizer. I'll probably install TTSynth at a later stage so when I do, I'll write instructions for that here. I've some very interesting things to report in Linux in relation to a comparason with the off screen model used by Windows based screen readers, but again, I'll leave that until I've had more time for testing.