Team, thanks for all the input. Once again, we have major hurdles to over come in relation to certifications. I have already done a lot of work in another area of certifications which I cannot discuss here. It looks like I have to start another education program/campain to get some improvements done. I hate to think what other certifications barriers are out there in Admin, networking, project, etc that is put in our way. Yes, we live in a sighted world. The certification testing centres or vendors who force people in the relevant industries should be held responsible for preventing VI's from getting certifications in turn getting jobs. Cert's is what is used to short list people in the I.T industry. I will ring Red Hat next week and let you know how it goes. Sean On 30/03/2013, at 10:25 AM, Jason White <jason at jasonjgw.net> wrote: > Tony Baechler <speakup at linux-speakup.org> wrote: >> Jason, Red Hat has made it very clear that they have no interest in >> accessibility, so I highly doubt that just contacting them would do any >> good. I say this from looking at their sites and finding nothing at all >> about accessibility. They don't even ship Speakup with RHEL as far as I'm >> aware, but since it's in staging, maybe they do now. > > Actually, Red Hat do maintain accessibility-related packages for their > distribution (such as Gnome/Orca) and they've contributed in the past to Gnome > accessibility, so I think it's wrong to claim that they have no interest in > the issue. > > If they don't hear about it from customers or potential customers, or from > people who seek certification, it won't register strongly among their > priorities. This is why I would encourage anyone interested in certification > to contact Red Hat about their accessibility needs. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
