new alsa-tools releases!

[kevin]

I realize what speakup is all about and it seems this release is met with
such hostility.  Again, I say you may email the one in charge of the alsa
project with your doubts
Kevin
email:
kjsisco at rcn.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh at sent.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: new alsa-tools releases!


> I have been following this thread and I agree with Shaun, Scott,
> and Janina about the strange interaction taking place here.
>
> My best guess is that Kevin has not the slightest idea what
> speakup is all about, and in fact may be confusing it with the
> gnopernicus access package, where frames and such might
> conceivably be tied to a sound package by means of some clever
> tool or other.
>
> But then, I too am only guessing in an effort to understand why
> we get such cryptic and uninformative postings here.
>
> Speakup is not like Jaws. It is NOTHING like Jaws. Frame-viewers
> are totally irrelevant to speakup users. Speakup enables a Linux
> kernel to make text consoles and applications with text
> interfaces totally accessible in speech. Web browsers with text
> modes have to deal with frames, true, but they each do so in
> their own way, and that too has nothing to do with speakup.
>
> Go check into a windows list, Kevin, or the Gnome or KDE
> accessibility projects. Those venues could conceivably have an
> interest in your product, if there IS one.
>
> Chuck
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