[Slighty-Offtopic] Fedora Accessibility

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Mon Sep 4 19:09:13 UTC 2006


On 9/4/06, Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 10:50:06AM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > Here are a cpuple of better question. When will speakup be accepted
> > into the mainline kernel.. and who is pushing the effort to mainline
>
> Probably never.
>
> > speakup?     Accessibility kernel enhancements are more important that
>
> Nobody to my knowledge is working seriously at making it useful, in the mean
> time the hardware vendors have been making it useless because serial ports
> are vanishing. I've talked to Intel and others about the need for a BIOS
> level accessibility console service but that fell (pardon the choice of
> phrase) on deaf ears all around.
>
> A second problem is that many people consider the user space solutions
> already superior including blind kernel hackers so there is much less
> leverage. Discussions about speakup v emacspeak and friends usually
> end up as flamewars about political issues with accessibility.
>
> Alan
>

Do any of the userland solutions work with Anaconda? if so I'll pass
on this information to the OP.

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