Version 7.3 of whateverI'msupposedtocallit now released.

[jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov]

Hi Greg,
That isn't gonna happen--XWINDOWS is still inaccessible regardless of 
the Distro.  Besides, on at least some machines they are using some Dell 
variant--which makes me a little queasy.

    Jim
On Wed, 8 May 2002, Gregory Nowak 
wrote:

> 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
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > Speakup mailing list
> > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > Speakup mailing list
> > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>