speakup and usb to serial converters

[Charles Crawford]

Argue that the serial port is an accomodation to your disability under 
Secs 504 and 508.  You can tell them that Windows does not afford you 
equal access or facilitation because it is not text based, breaks, and 
is not fully accessible.

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Deedra Waters wrote:

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> Hmm, this is going to rule out being able to use speakup on most of the low priced laptops soon. Del  has dropped all serial ports on their laptops, and gateway is right  behind them. As  near as I can tell, pretty much all of the newer macs also do not have that serial support.
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> The only way I can see around that problem is have a sited person go through  the install, and then use software speech with speakup. Does anyone have any ideas here?
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> My main reasoning behind asking theese questions is that the state wants to replace my laptop when I go back to school... They get some sort of deal  through del, so that's who they go with. Unfortunately the machine won't have a serial port...
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Kirk Reiser wrote:
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> > Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:00:41 -0500
> > From: Kirk Reiser <kirk at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> >     <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Subject: Re: speakup and usb to serial converters
> > 
> > I cannot see how speakup could work with a USB to serial converter
> > unless the USB port happened to be exactly what a standard uart
> > provided in exactly the same place.  In other words, no.
> > 
> >   Kirk
> > 
> > 
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