April 29, 2011 Slackware released version 13.37. This version offers the choice of kernels from 2.6.37, 2.6.38, and 2.6.39 in it. Probably speakup was made to work with 2.6.37 but beyond that may be no man's land. I have a subscription so expect i'll probably have a box arrive at the post office in a couple weeks and get to find out a few things. Unfortunately, slackware has committed to kde and the only gnome possibilities for it are either the stock gnome distribution from gnome.org and 3rd party offerings some of which do not include accessibility support. I plan not to install kde on the new installation since my version of blindness is no useable vision from birth and kde accessibility may only be obtained by means of a complete rewrite of kde. In future, kde I think will be held up as an example of how not to write code so accessibility can't be bolted on later in those college courses that teach accessibility programming. Work is under way for qt so eventually accessibility may be able to piggyback its way into kde on qt's back.
