,ACCESSIBLE-,COCONUT "<,,AC"> IS A
,LINUX DISTRIBUTION BUILT BY THE ,INDIAN
ACCESSIBILITY COLLECTIVE ,ZENDALONA TO
BE EYES-FREE FROM THE GROUND UP  NOT A
DESKTOP WITH A SCREEN READER BOLTED ON1
BUT AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE THE SCREEN
READER IS THE INTERFACE4 ,IT RUNS ON AN
,UBUNTU ,,MATE AND ,DEBIAN
FOUNDATION4.<CITE3
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,ITS DEFINING DESIGN DECISION IS ONE
MAINSTREAM DISTRIBUTIONS REFUSE TO MAKE3
,,AC DISABLES STANDARD BACKGROUND
PRELOADS AND AUTOMATIC UPDATES TO
GUARANTEE THAT NOTHING EVER SHIFTS
UNDERNEATH THE ACCESSIBILITY STACK4
,WHERE GENERAL-PURPOSE DISTROS TREAT
STABILITY AS A GOAL1 ,,AC TREATS THE
ACCESSIBILITY LAYER'S SURVIVAL AS THE
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,FEATURES
- ,PRE-CONFIGURED SPEECH DISPATCHERS3
ESPEAK-NG1 FLITE1 AND ,R,H,VOICE - ,AN
AUTOMATIC TEXT-TO-SPEECH CONSOLE SCREEN
READER  THE TERMINAL SPEAKS WITHOUT A
DESKTOP - ,SIX-KEY ,BRAILLE INPUT IN
,PERKINS ,BRAILLER MODE - ,AN INTEGRATED
,,DAISY PLAYER FOR TALKING BOOKS - ,AN
,,OCR UTILITY THAT READS SCANNED TEXT
ALOUD - ,A FROZEN-BY-DEFAULT PLATFORM SO
ACCESSIBILITY TOOLS NEVER REGRESS
UNDERNEATH THE USER.<CITE3
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,IN THE ,FEDORA #DE DEBATES
,,AC IS THE PROOF-BY-EXISTENCE FOR THE
ACCESSIBILITY CRITIQUE OF THE ,FEDORA
#DE ,,KMSCON TRANSITION3 WHEN AN
UPSTREAM PLATFORM TREATS THE CONSOLE AS
LEGACY1 THE WORKAROUND IS TO BUILD A
DISTRIBUTION THAT REFUSES TO MOVE4 ,SEE
,THE ,HAT ,TIPS ,BOTH ,WAYS4
,SEE ALSO
- ,ACCESSIBLE-,COCONUT  ,STORMUX  ,SLINT
,VOJTUX  ,ADRIANE ,KNOPPIX  ,VINUX 
,SONAR - ,FEDORA #DE  ,WHY ,DEBIAN ,IS
,STILL ,KING_?_? ,SEE ALSO
- ,SPEAKUP  KERNEL CONSOLE SPEECH 
,,BRLTTY  THE BRAILLE DISPLAY DAEMON -
,EYES-,FREE ,LINUX  THE HANDBOOK CHAPTER
THIS DISTRO SERVES - ,BRAILLE 'N ,SPEAK 
,KURZWEIL ,READING ,MACHINE  THE
HARDWARE LINEAGE - ,BRAILLE  ,LOUIS
,BRAILLE  ,NEMETH ,BRAILLE ,CODE - ,THE
,LIBRARY  BRAILLE CODES AND TRANSLATION
ON THE MAIN SITE