speakup howto, was: Re: suggestions for Speakup

[Gregory Nowak]

So will this new joint howto be a rewriting and incorperation of Saqib's original howto, or a totally new document?
Greg


On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 01:36:53PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Excellent questions, Gregory. IBM's Accessibility on Linux page, which is 
> at:
> 
> 	
> http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux/projects/access/
> 
> says "The IBM Linux Accessibility Team contributes to the open-source 
> community's accessibility efforts in order to help
>    accelerate Linux."
> 
> This is, of course, an incomplete statement which makes no sense on its 
> own. What do they mean "accelerate linux?" I suspect they don't mean "make 
> it run faster," for example. I'm sure there's a word missing in that 
> sentence, but I diagress ...
> 
> This page goes on to say:
> 
> "November 15, 2001
>    Saqib Shaikh, author of several Speakup documents, agreed to coauthor 
> new Speakup HOWTO with Jennifer Jobst."
> 
> Since I see no link, I assume they're not offering up any drafts just yet,
> but I certainly expect they'll do so before finalizing their document. I
> know Jennifer posted a draft of her emacspeak documentation on the
> emacspeak list, so I suspect she's lurking here, and will do the same for
> us. And, of course, Saqib is active on this list, so perhaps he'd like to
> share about this? I do recall he offered us his own, quite excellent
> speakup HOWTO last spring. Are there other speakup docs you've written,
> Saqib? That one is the only one I'm aware of to date.
> 
> Now, let me speculate on the real reason IBM is up to all those wonderful 
> efforts they proudly list at the url provided above:
> 
> I believe IBM wants to make money selling computers to the U.S. 
> Government. I believe they want the option to sell systems without 
> Microsoft applications, and Microsoft operating systems. Recent news 
> stories have explained about contracts from IBM to Redhat for ports of the 
> Redhat distribution of open source linux for a range of IBM servers, and 
> even IBM's S390 mainframe.
> 
> To me, these facts point to the intention to be Sec.508 compliant in 
> systems proposals for U.S. Federal procurments. And, I say, "Amen, and 
> more power to them."
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 
> > IBM is authoring a howto about speakup? Where can I find a copy to look at?
> > And uhhhm, why are they doing it?
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:28:21AM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > > On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Stick to the straight and
> > > > narrow and make sure each feature under consideration really
> > > > belongs in a screen reader. Examples: the cut and paste feature
> > > > really did belong; the reinitialization feature really does not.
> > > > 
> > > Strongly agree, but with a suggested twist.
> > > 
> > > The reinitialization feature should go into the HOWTO that Saqib and IBM 
> > > are authoring about speakup. It's a valuable tip that even novice users 
> > > can set up for themselves, and learn a little linux in the process. And, 
> > > they'll end up with a feature they are likely to find useful, and that 
> > > they wouldn't come upon very quickly on their own.
> > > 
> > > Saqib, Jennifer, are you listening??
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> 	
> 				Janina Sajka, Director
> 				Technology Research and Development
> 				Governmental Relations Group
> 				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> 
> Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175
> 
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> Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
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