RH9 disks on the net.

Gregory Nowak greg at romuald.net.eu.org
Tue Apr 8 17:55:50 EDT 2003


If someone has direct knowledge/experience of proper accommodations being denied to blind people who have taken the RCE exam,
it would be interesting to know how many blind people total have tried to take it, and could not. That would put the 2 cases a bit more in context.

Greg


On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 05:42:56PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> No not quite. Nor can you provide it, as it doesn't exist.
> 
> Two instances of a too-tight RCE policy with no disability accomodations doesn't make a deliberate policy, nor does it constitute "many attempts" to my mind.
> 
> But, more to the point, your original message in this thread claimed the removal of Speakup from the RH 9 kernel is a result of this deliberate policy you imagine. So,
> let me ask you a simple question?
> 
> When did Red Hat change from an inclusive policy to a deliberately discriminatory one? Since they decided on their own to include Speakup in Red Hat 8.0, there must
> have been an inclusive policy at some time. Would you now claim they've actively and deliberately changed their minds in the past six months? How do YOU account for
> Speakup in the 8.0 kernel distribution?
> 
> 
> 




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