RH9 disks on the net.

[Janina Sajka]

Now, in this message, you sound far more sane. 

Suspicious? I can understand that. Blind folks have plenty reasons for
that. But words like "deliberate policy" are beyond the pale. 

Please note, it doesn't make good advocacy, either. Unless and until
such exists and you can show it, best to avoid such inflamatory
declaratives.

Darrell Shandrow writes:
> From: "Darrell Shandrow" <nu7i at azboss.net>
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> OK.  That reasoning is certainly understandable.  Agreed that it would
> probably be much better if Speakup were modular.  Hope Kirk and the others
> will be able to create such an implementation.  Unfortunately, a hard-core
> programmer I am not.  :-)
> 
> If Speakup weren't included due to reasons such as those you give, then I am
> not as nervous.  It'll be interesting to see what RH does if Speakup becomes
> modularized and more bugs are fixed, but Speakup does not get included.  Can
> you see how some of us would consider its removal for RH 9.0 to constitute a
> step in the wrong direction?
> 
> Darrell Shandrow - Shandrow Communications!
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209" <wacker at octothorp.org>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 1:18 PM
> Subject: Re: RH9 disks on the net.
> 
> 
> > 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...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Darrell Shandrow - Shandrow Communications!
> > > Technology consultant/instructor, network/systems administrator!
> > > A+, CCNA, Network+!
> > > Check out high quality telecommunications services at
> http://ld.net/?nu7i
> > > All the best to coalition forces carrying out Operation Iraqi Freedom!
> >
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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