Hi, One thing that I think is in desperate need of being addressed is making other developers aware that Speakup exists, greatly increases accessibility, and can easily be installed into a production kernel. I have two specific reasons for saying this. First, there are very few distros which include Speakup as part of their official kernel and installer images. Unless I'm mistaken, Debian doesn't include it officially now and the unofficial install image isn't current. I would strongly recommend against anyone using the unofficial Etch kernel with Speakup because it hasn't been updated since the release of Etch and has known security flaws that aren't fixed. Most of the smaller and lesser known distros don't include Speakup either even though there is no good reason not to include it. I have thought about using various specialized distros designed to replace hardware routers and firewalls but I'm not aware of any that include Speakup. Obviously the point would be to keep the distro small but it could still be built into the kernel. The second reason may be of less interest to people here but I think it's important just the same. That is to make commercial projects that are based on the Linux kernel also aware of Speakup. Specifically, I'm working with a company that makes backup imaging software for DOS, Windows, and Linux. It is possible but difficult to use the DOS version with a screen reader. I suggested that they could build Speakup into the Linux version and it would be accessible out of the box. They seemed interested but I think the project is stalled because the site is not current. I didn't know at the time, but apparently Speakup had already switched to git and there was no mention of that in the old CVS repository. Apparently they found the new git repo but I don't know how because I wasn't aware of it until Kirk posted the url here. It makes it difficult to push for better accessibility when the site is very old and the project looks abandoned. While I'm here, I would also like to suggest putting a link to the most current release (maybe a snapshot made nightly from git?) and the most recent stable release right on the home page. Many people, especially the developers described above, don't have time to browse through a site just to find a download link. Since most people consider it a favor to include any kind of accessibility in their particular distro's kernel, they really don't understand what Speakup is except that it's supposed to help the blind. Maybe a mp3 demo of someone using Speakup for daily tasks would be good. Dawes, Stephen wrote: > What do you want to see in a revitalized Web site? >
