> As a computer user who happens to be blind, one of the > most frustrating issues is the fact that except for expensive > servers, none of these boxes output any machine readable text > when booting up or in setup mode such as when the coin cell that > powers the CMOS BIOS gives up the ghost and one needs to do a > setup on it, etc.
Actually, cheap little boxes like the BananaPi (and the legion of similar SBCs) do output via a serial line, so you might want to try that route. They're also pleasantly low-noise and fairly power-efficient. Stefan