From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from wb2flw.octothorp.org ([63.224.68.2]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 192GbH-0006sb-00 for ; Sun, 06 Apr 2003 16:18:47 -0400 Received: from wb2flw.octothorp.org (wb2flw.octothorp.org [127.0.0.1]) by wb2flw.octothorp.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h36KIhff007133 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 2003 20:18:43 GMT Received: from localhost (wacker@localhost) by wb2flw.octothorp.org (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id h36KIgSh007128 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:18:43 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: wb2flw.octothorp.org: wacker owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:18:42 -0600 (MDT) From: "William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209" To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: RH9 disks on the net. In-Reply-To: <000901c2fc58$5df90e40$6401a8c0@nu7i> Message-ID: References: <000901c2fc58$5df90e40$6401a8c0@nu7i> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi, Darrell, Since RH doesn't communicate their thinking to the great unwashed masses such as ourselves, only $DEITY knows the whole story. A big part of their concern seems to be the fact that Speakup is not yet modular thereby exposing *real* people to whatever problems that might be inherent in the access technology. There was a show-stopper bug in Speakup which caused non-English keyboards to not work correctly. Even though the bug was discovered during the Beta of RH8.0, Speakup was included anyway. It takes a lot of imagination to come up with a guess as to why Speakup wasn't pulled at that time, allowing time for the bug to be fixed. Instead, it was included in the final release, thereby causing a lot of unhappy users of non-English keyboards. 73. -- Bill in Denver On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Darrell Shandrow wrote: > Hi Bill, > > Does this mean that Red Hat has stepped back from its commitment (such as it > was) to accessibility by skipping Speakup for this major release? Wonder if > this is an extension of a revised policy to deny accessibility? Some will > recall that Red Hat recently decided to deliberately deny equal access to > its training material as offered to those whom decide to take their > week-long RHCE training classes. Oh, well... > > > > > Darrell Shandrow - Shandrow Communications! > Technology consultant/instructor, network/systems administrator! > A+, CCNA, Network+! > Check out high quality telecommunications services at http://ld.net/?nu7i > All the best to coalition forces carrying out Operation Iraqi Freedom!