Version 7.3 of whateverI'msupposedtocallit now released.
Gregory Nowak
gnowak1 at uic.edu
Wed May 8 13:33:17 EDT 2002
They should try slackware for now in order to change their compliance views. Also, this message is a test of my current qmail configuration.
Greg
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 12:42:25PM -0400, jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote:
> Hi Janina,
> Well, this is indeed good news! Some of the people around here were
> going to say that Linux is non Section 508 compliant, which is of course
> ridiculous. NWS in particular heavily uses Redhat. Unfortunately,
> the Advanced Weather Information Processing System uses XWINDOWS for
> their forecaster interface--a different issue altogether. By their
> logic, MSDOS would have been inaccessible when there weren't any screen
> readers for WINDBLOWS.
>
> Jim
> On Wed, 8 May 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:
>
> > Hi, Jim:
> >
> > Janina here ...
> >
> > You ask whether Red Hat might include Speakup in a future
> > version. I can tell you that we have been in communication with
> > Red Hat about this, and other issues relating to support for
> > technologies used by persons with disabilities. I believe we will
> > see good support from Red Hat in the not too distant future, and
> > I do believe that support will include Speakup.
> >
> > Which would be good news for Bill, because then he wouldn't have
> > to do this anymore! <grin>
> >
> > On Wed, 8 May 2002 jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Bill,
> > > Great job as usual. Are there any prospects that Redhat will include
> > > Speakup in their standard distro? It would sure help some things here
> > > at NOAA if they did. I'm downloading the images as I write!
> > >
> > > Jim Wantz
> > > On Mon, 6 May
> > > 2002, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > Today, Red Hat, INC, released Red Hat Linux 7.3 (Valhalla).
> > > > Also, there's now a talking look-alike at:
> > > > ftp://linux-speakup.org/pub/speakup/disks/redhat/7.3/
> > > >
> > > > Because of its huge size, I should probably remove version 7.2 very
> > > > soon.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Enjoy.
> > > > Bill
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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