I realize what speakup is all about and it seems this release is met with such hostility. Again, I say you may email the one in charge of the alsa project with your doubts Kevin email: kjsisco at rcn.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh@xxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 7:51 PM Subject: Re: new alsa-tools releases! > I have been following this thread and I agree with Shaun, Scott, > and Janina about the strange interaction taking place here. > > My best guess is that Kevin has not the slightest idea what > speakup is all about, and in fact may be confusing it with the > gnopernicus access package, where frames and such might > conceivably be tied to a sound package by means of some clever > tool or other. > > But then, I too am only guessing in an effort to understand why > we get such cryptic and uninformative postings here. > > Speakup is not like Jaws. It is NOTHING like Jaws. Frame-viewers > are totally irrelevant to speakup users. Speakup enables a Linux > kernel to make text consoles and applications with text > interfaces totally accessible in speech. Web browsers with text > modes have to deal with frames, true, but they each do so in > their own way, and that too has nothing to do with speakup. > > Go check into a windows list, Kevin, or the Gnome or KDE > accessibility projects. Those venues could conceivably have an > interest in your product, if there IS one. > > Chuck > > -- > The Moon is Waning Crescent (26% of Full) > Get my public key from website, http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
