The Accessibility README in 8.0 explicitly mentions Speakup, and the Installation HOWTO on the Speakup web site. Furthermore, it commits Red Hat Tech Support to supporting it. One more thing, the hooks for Speakup support are still in RH 9, even though Speakup isn't in the kernel suggesting to some of us that RH expects to put it back when issues are resolved. Aaron Howell writes: > From: Aaron Howell <aaron at kitten.net.au> > > To the best of my knowledge the 8.0 Readme.accessibility only covered Emacspeak, > as did the 7.x version. > its pretty easy to tell too, that its been a while since they bothered to work on that file, when you look at the versions of emacspeak and emacs mentioned, > as that they still make reference to getting ViaVoice from IBM, even though its no longer available. > If someone could prove me wrong though... > Regards > Aaron > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 07:52:34PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote: > > I thought Speakup was deliberately included because I seem to recall that > > the documentation reported where the Redhat Speakup Howto was. I deleted > > my Redhat 8.1 files, but I seem to remember it having a whole > > accessibility readme which discussed Speakup and Emacspeak. Oh well, > > Slackware has had Speakup since 8.0, and the last two versions have had > > Brltty and Emacspeak in the extra directory. For this, I am probably a > > Slackware user for life, although I've played with both Debian and Redhat. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
