A hearty second to Janina's thanks to both Samuel and Okash. I wasn't aware of their "screen reader usage" status till recently. Your efforts are very much appreciated. Tom Fowle On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 05:45:55AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > Samuel: > > I just want to thank you for many critical contributions to Linux > accessibility over the past 15 years or more, and especially for your > contributions to Speakup. > > > I suspect not everyone on list is aware that you, yourself don't rely on screen > reading technology. I believe the same is true of Okash. My thanks to > both of you for keeping our favorite interface tools viable on our > favorite platform. > > Best, > > Janina > > > > Samuel Thibault writes: > > Hello, > > > > Kirk Reiser, le ven. 29 mars 2019 18:03:07 -0400, a ecrit: > > > I mistakenly assumed that you had others on the accessibility team > > > helping to catch problems as they come through. I figured as picky as > > > the kernel folks were that they would have scads of volunteers helping > > > make sure every brace and blank line was properly placed. > > > > In general about accessibility stuff, assume lack of manpower :/ > > > > > Maybe something changed in the scheduling of the package > > > installation to remove the positioning of stopping a running > > > application and restarting it. > > > > It seems it happened on migrating to a systemd service. > > I've always said systemd would bring issues in all kind of places ; > > that's basically one of them, and lack of testing and actual reporting > > made it appear. > > > > > p.s. I believe we've just passed the 20th anniversary of my first releasees of speakup. > > > > Oh, I thought it was older than that. > > > > Samuel > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka > > Linux Foundation Fellow > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
