I personally dont use vipmud and foobar2000, so i hadn't had a problem with that.
If you want sapi on wine, just copy paste these commands in to your terminal window
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine-development
sudo apt-get install winetricks
winetricks -q speechsdk
and here you go.
Just delete a nvda controller cliend dll from any game/app that uses both nvda and sapi

I wrote about this a bit:

https://devinprater.github.io/open-source-blindness/

There is more that I'll write further, as I have a Raspberry Pi 4 that I'm using Linux on, and have some hot takes for that. First and foremost, why the Rust, Ruin, crem, and Lord Ruler is there an "accessibility setting" that can be disabled or enabled for Gnome and such desktops? Why is there a freaking option! For people to disable accessibility? What the actual crap! Because storming choice, right? Because installers can be inaccessible because ah its some one else's fault go bother some one else you blindie, right? Because oh its open source but we can't help we're so so sorry, right? Ugh! The open source community is pretty awful as a whole, when it comes to accessibility. Why is that? I believe its because they aren't accountable, to anyone. When you don't have to worry about government mandates, or losing your job, or thousands of angry users, you can pretty easily ignore that one stupid disabled guy that won't shut the crem up about making our app, that we work so hard on, accessible. I mean, there's just that one person; why would we do something for that one person?

Now, there are exceptions. This chat app:

https://github.com/Restioson/vertex

has been made accessible due to my interactions with one of the developers, and we all know about Retroarch. There is also this Jekyll mode for Emacs, which now has a way to work with Emacspeak:

https://github.com/masasam/emacs-easy-jekyll/issues/5

And the Mate desktop continually sees small accessibility fixes in its releases, and they're proudly shown in the release notes, even though Linux podcasts just seem to be blind to them, pun intended.

But, there are these issues:

AltStore accessibility problems:

https://github.com/rileytestut/AltStore/issues/145

Delta accessibility:

https://github.com/rileytestut/DeltaCore/issues/13

from which I've not heard a peep from the developer. So really, just because something is open source does **not** make it better for us. In fact, it probably means that the program is less likely to be accessible, because the developer doesn't *need* to make it accessible. There's no accountability reason to do so. My opinion on open source is pretty enflamed, yes. Because there's so much potential in it. I mean, people working together is a great ideal. It's wonderful, and could be so much more accessible than what it is, if people actually cared. And I do care about open source. I write about it on my blog. My blog itself is open source; contributions welcome. But I'm not a developer, so I can't contribute code to make projects more accessible.

So, what about Windows? Well, its much more accessible, but innovations happen slowly there. Although, it is the first operating system with a screen reader that, unlike Google, the AI-first company, contains AI connection. Yes, Narrator uses AI to describe images, and I am fairly sure that it was the first. I mean, not everything is perfect. Spell checking could be improved with a hotkey to move between misspelled words and such, and Markdown could be offered system wide; nothing does this yet but why not hope, and the Microsoft Rewards program has inaccessible quizzes requiring drag and drop. But my goodness, they're at least moving forward.

Now, as I've said on my blog post, Linux isn't entirely standing still regarding accessibility. GTK is working on modernizing its accessibility system, and the Mate desktop comes out with accessibility improvements right in the *changelogs*. I mean, what other desktop does that besides Windows? So its not all bad on Linux, just, very frustrating and disillusioning.

well its interesting. I have a vps and I would love to try out how its like to use linux as if you had it installed in your pc as opposed to copy pasting too many things in the shell. Is there any way or any remote desktop that is accessible and can  work from windows?
unfortunately no USB drives where I am, so no, live booting is most likely not an option right now.

@6: That's great. But isn't their installer not accessible? Or is that Antergos? ah, one of them I *know* has an inaccessible installer. Yeah, shoot, I might just be impatient. That happens sometimes. It's just hard when people just don't respond at all. But I keep using as much open source as possible.

@7 There's my Orca Remote plugin, but please note that it is in early development.
You can find more details at https://github.com/thgcode/orca-remote
and the topic I created for it at https://forum.audiogames.net/topic/3447 … da-remote/