Few questions about speakup

[Janina Sajka]

No, Charlie. This isn't correct.

First point. StarOffice accessibility is currently under development, both 
for Linux and for Windows. This will include the GPL edition called 
OpenOffice.

Second point, it isn't the same as with Windows, in any case. The display 
is not integrated into applications the way it is on Windows systems. 
That's the same answer you got on the radio the other day.

 On Mon, 29 Jul 
2002, charles crawford wrote:

> 	It does distress me that Star Offfice 6 is not accessible by
> text and that contradicts the answer to a question that I posed a few days
> ago.  In short, are we setting ourselves up for another Microsoft
> experience where text in Linux or DOS in Microsoft is replaced by the
> graphical user interface?  The answer I got was that it is not in nature
> of Linux to allow for that.  Now I hear this.
> 
> 	So what is the answer to the question?  Should we not only be
> looking at technology but also at the advocacy model to insure that we
> keep access through text?
> 
> -- charlie Crawford.
> 
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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

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org