[Slighty-Offtopic] Fedora Accessibility

[Arthur Pemberton]

This is mostly a report of a yet unanswered post in fedora-list. Some
blind dude asked for help with some tech I have never come accross. It
seems neither has the majority of the people over on fedora-list.

So I am posting here hoping you guys can give this dude some help. And
also to ask what is Fedora doing about accessibility? I am without any
such hindrancies myself. But recently "accessibility" was used as a
case against OO.org in a US state, Google, is develpoing a version of
their web search which ranks accessibie pags high, and
fedoraproject.org seems to have no pages on accessibility.

Seeing as the "Speakup" tech was present in FC3, I now know it is
possible (I didn't before). Any idea how comes it is gone? It was a
bit too generic a word for my Google kung fu.

Peace

[Message from OP]
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Hey guys, I have a question for anyone who can answer it.  I have been
trying to install Fedora Core 3 for two days now, and am totally confused.
The reason I'm using 3 is because it's currently thee latest version that
has the Speakup modified kernel for a talking install.  I'm really hoping
there is one when fedora core 6 comes out.  What is happening, is that the
installation seems to lock up at the disk testing screen.  I will try to
tab/alt+tab between OK and Skip, and get no where.  I had some sighted
assistance for a while yesterday, and found out that the problem occurs
whether speakup is loaded or not.  When speakup is loaded, it sends my
synthesizer (whether dec-talk express or Braille note) into space, and will
never quit talking until it reaches the OK or skip buttons for the disk
test.  Any one have any ideas?  I would greatly appreciate any help I can
get with this matter.  Here is my system config.
Processor: Pentium IV 2.8 GHZ Hyperthread on an Abit ai7 main board
1 GB RAM
AC97 based sound
Seagate 40 GB IDE hard drive
NVidia Geforce 4 video card.
 Again, thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

Thanks,

Guy
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