Yet one more success with SPeakup

[Kirk Reiser]

"Victor Tsaran" <vtsaran at nimbus.ocis.temple.edu> writes:

> Dear listers and particularly developers of SPeakup!
> I just wanted to report that we've got one more record in favor of Speakup
> and its great usability to blind Linux users and system admins.

Well, thank you very much for the kind words about your adventures in
Thailand.  It would be interesting to hear more about how they are
using Linux and speakup and the like.


> Pico or Emacs, but I believe the cursoring issue will befixwed soon. One
> thing that was mostly confusing for the new blind Linux users is that they
> could not use another screen reader on the same port where Speakup was
> running. So, if this problem could be addressed in the future, it would be
> benefitial and, at least democratic, grin!

We have rough support for cursoring and an accessable device
/dev/synth in the current version of speakup in cvs.  It is still
pretty rough however but it is certainly coming along.  Anyone that is
interested in playing with the cvs can drop me a note and I will send
out a script they can use to download and patch the cvs version into a
clean full source kernel.

If the folks already using the cvs version think the script is stable
enough, I could post it to the list and place it on the ftp area.

  Kirk

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