Does Red Hat even have an A11y team? ----- Original Message ----- From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 14:44:17 -0700 Subject: RE: installing speakup on RHEL 7/8 > > Thanks Janina for the info, I wonder if anyone we can ask inside Red hat to > shed some light on this topic, as I am unable to find any contact info for > their accessibility team. > > I imagine I can't be the only one out there who is trying to use speakup > with RHEL, or am I? > > --David > > > -----Original Message----- > From: blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx <blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx> On > Behalf Of Linux for blind general discussion > Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2020 4:07 AM > To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: installing speakup on RHEL 7/8 > > When he was still alive, Bill Acker routinely built Fedora kernels that > included Speakup, both before and after Speakup became part of staging. > I know for a fact that Bill tried, and never succeeded at building Speakup > into RHEL. Now Bill's been gone for a few years, but I've no reason to > believe the environment has suddenly become Speakup friendly, sorry to say. > > No, I don't recall what the block was/were. > > I know that's not what you wanted to hear, but it's the best answer I can > provide and I don't believe you're going to find very much different info. > I'll be happy to be proven wrong, of course. > > It'll be interesting to see what RHEL does when Speakup finally becomes a > first class kernel citizen. If I understand the situation correctly, that > should come fairly soon. > > Best, > > Janina > > Linux for blind general discussion writes: > > > > > > Hi there - > > > > > > > > I am getting a workstation at work that will be running RHEL 7 or 8. > > From what I understand, speakup is not a package in yum, but it is now > > part of the kernel staging tree. > > > > > > > > Does anyone have instructions on how to get speakup installed and > > running on RHEL 7 or 8 using software speech? > > > > > > > > Any help appreciated, thank you very much in advance > > > > > > > > --David > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > -- > > Janina Sajka > https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka > > Linux Foundation Fellow > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list