redhat problems

[Janina Sajka]

I would encourage you to let them know how you feel. That's a good thing to do.

Just a minor point. When uou write that Speakup "was working fine" in 8.0, that's true for us. Unfortunately, it was causing problems for other people. Yes, it's also
true that Kirk fixed that problem, and it's also true that Red Hat took their sweet time picking up the fix that Kirk created. But, the way you said it isn't true.

Another point. Speakup isn't the only accessibility related package in the Red Hat distribution. So, pulling the README.Accessibility doesn't make sense unless Red Had
were to have pulled the other package, too. In fact, they didn't, it's still there. And, they did modify what the README.Accessibility says. So, they did the right
thing as far as that file goes.

As for the business about providing RCE related materials in accessible, alternate formats, I agree 100%.

Nick Gawronski writes:
> From: Nick Gawronski <nick at nickgawronski.com>
> 
>       Hi, We must do something about all of these problems with redhat.  
> Think about it, rh8 had speakup and it was working just fine but look what 
> has happend rh9 is here and we don't have speakup yet the 
> readme-accessibility file is in 9 that says that redhat wants to make 
> their products accessible.  Well, I don't think that they are beeing very 
> nice about this at all.  If they removed speakup they should of removed 
> readme-accessbility as well.  We must contact redhat and find out "why did 
> you remove speakup yet leave readme-accessibility"  That is what we need 
> to do about this.  Who says they have a right to put speakup in one 
> version then take it away.  Think about this because we can make them put 
> it back in to their product.  bye 
> 
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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