I expect Speakup in the next version, which should be out in about six months. The early beta versions should be out in about two to three months. I expect other, accessibility-related applications will be added as well. However, I have no special knowledge that this will be the case. This is just my opinion. Nick Gawronski writes: > From: Nick Gawronski <nick at nickgawronski.com> > > Hi, do you think that speakup will be in the next version of redhat? > bye On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Thomas D. Ward wrote: > > > Hi, you must understand the removal of speakup was strictly technical by > > nature. Allot of the people on list are out to get Red Hat for pulling > > speakup when there are technical issues that need and should be resolved. > > One technical issue I agree with Red Hat on is a moduler version of speakup > > as rather than the current way speakup is compiled into the kernel direct. > > If I had the time and patients to do so I would do so myself, but it really > > is a big undertaking to modulerize speakup. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Nick Gawronski <nick at nickgawronski.com> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 5:25 PM > > Subject: redhat problems > > > > > > > Hi, We must do something about all of these problems with redhat. > > > Think about it, rh8 had speakup and it was working just fine but look what > > > has happend rh9 is here and we don't have speakup yet the > > > readme-accessibility file is in 9 that says that redhat wants to make > > > their products accessible. Well, I don't think that they are beeing very > > > nice about this at all. If they removed speakup they should of removed > > > readme-accessbility as well. We must contact redhat and find out "why did > > > you remove speakup yet leave readme-accessibility" That is what we need > > > to do about this. Who says they have a right to put speakup in one > > > version then take it away. Think about this because we can make them put > > > it back in to their product. bye > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
