1) only valid method to install gentoo for screen reader accessibility is to do it from an existing linux installation. The rest of what's on the internet does not work. 2) no user visible parts exist when installing gentoo from a flash drive so all edits done will remain invisible until a reboot test is done. I did edits on a flash drive sdb1 and sdb4 had missing ntfs signatures and neither the directories or the files edited in them could be found on /dev/sdb2 and /dev/sdb3. 3) a hairy way to run a screen reader installation. 4) with the latest reboot attempt I ran dhcpcd and since nothing talks or beeps I couldn't even get an idea if it ran successfully and that was before doing emerge espeakup alsa-utils so can't say if any of those commands worked either. 5) for future reference following commands got run: speaker-test and heard static nano /etc/modules-load.d/espeakup.conf In file used control-e to go to end of file and added speakup_soft then did control-o and control-x to save the change. emerge espeakup alsa-utils nano /etc/conf.d/alsasound in file control-e then SAVE_ON_STOP="yes" then control-o and control-x rc-update add alsasound boot rc-update add espeakup default 6) so far,no espeakup talks when flash drive gets rebooted.
-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.
