[Slighty-Offtopic] Fedora Accessibility

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Mon Sep 4 18:50:06 UTC 2006


On 9/4/06, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone even know if FC6 will have a speakup modified kernel?
> Apperently for some, just having that was enough.


Here are a cpuple of better question. When will speakup be accepted
into the mainline kernel.. and who is pushing the effort to mainline
speakup?     Accessibility kernel enhancements are more important that
a Fedora specific patch, this needs to be driven upstream so everyone
working on any linux will benefit.

The mailinglist archives contain relevant discussions concerning
speakup's removal all the way back to fc1, this isn't a new issue, and
i doubt the arguments have changed.  If you care about speakup, help
get it mainlined.

-jef"or if you are an established, significant, RHEL customer,
convince Red Hat that accessibility is your #1 concern and that lack
of accessibility will cost them sales in the hopes that they will
expend engineering time to shepard the mainlining of the kernel
patches for you. But don't expect the patches to show up as downstream
modifications to fedora kernels"spaleta




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