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...
>
>
>
>
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