RH9 disks on the net.

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209]

Hi, Darrell,

     Since RH doesn't communicate their thinking to the great unwashed 
masses such as ourselves, only $DEITY knows the whole story. A big part of 
their concern seems to be the fact that Speakup is not yet modular thereby 
exposing *real* people to whatever problems that might be inherent in the 
access technology.  There was a show-stopper bug in Speakup which caused 
non-English keyboards to not work correctly.  Even though the bug was 
discovered during the Beta of RH8.0, Speakup was included anyway.  It 
takes a lot of imagination to come up with a guess as to why Speakup 
wasn't pulled at that time, allowing time for the bug to be fixed.  
Instead, it was included in the final release, thereby causing a lot of 
unhappy users of non-English keyboards.

          73.
-- 
          Bill in Denver


On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Darrell Shandrow wrote:

> Hi Bill,
> 
> Does this mean that Red Hat has stepped back from its commitment (such as it
> was) to accessibility by skipping Speakup for this major release?  Wonder if
> this is an extension of a revised policy to deny accessibility?  Some will
> recall that Red Hat recently decided to deliberately deny equal access to
> its training material as offered to those whom decide to take their
> week-long RHCE training classes.  Oh, well...
> 
> 
> 
> 
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