Need to install speakup on Suse 9.3

[Janina Sajka]

Darragh writes:
> I'm working for Novell and they want me using Suse 9.3 and in a few days v10. 


Understandable that they'd want that. Perhaps this is an opportunity to
improve the accessibility of Suse/Novell. They could benefit from a
heightened awareness.

As is being brought out here, not all blind users are servedby braille,
nor are all accessibility issues blind user issues, for that matter.

If yast is that dynamic now, your participation at Novell trying to use
yast might help us get a really accessible yast in the end. Good luck
with that, Darragh. Sometimes you get hired for one job, but end up
doing a somewhat different one. As long as they keep those paychecks
coming ... <grin>

> 
> SSH might be an alternative though but I'll probably have to bring my laptop into work every day. I basically want to use yast.  I have a 40 cell Braille display and my Braille reading is very out of practise and thus very slow.  I have to be able to use yast. unfortunately the applications and settings they use keep changing and I need to be able to install them as quick and as easilly as possible.  
> 
> 
> -----Original message-----
> From: Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
> Date: Tue,  9 Aug 2005 15:37:46 +0100
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: Need to install speakup on Suse 9.3
> 
> > I don't follow your logic, Darragh. Are you expecting that Speakup will
> > somehow do for you what Brltty has been unable to do? If so, I would
> > hope you have a sound basis for such an expectation.
> > 
> > The best I can tell you about Speakup on Suse is what I have previously
> > reported. To my knowledge, no one has succeededwith that. I know several
> > have tried, including me. The closest I got was a speaking kernel panic.
> > 
> > Now, you maty get further, but that takes me back to the original
> > question. Are you after some development work? Or do you just need to
> > perform some task. If the latter,grab a Speakup enabled Fedora, Debian,
> > or whatever, and ssh to that Suse box. I suspect you're going to find
> > that yast will still not work--for the same reason it isn't working with
> > sbl. Of course, I could be very wrong.
> > 
> > Darragh writes:
> > > Hello,
> > > I know I wrote about this a while ago but I'm now using Suse 9.3 as my main operating system so I'm in a better position to act on peoples suggestions.  I really need to get speakup installed and I'm hoping someone here can tell me how possible this will be.  I'm using brltty at the moment but it doesn't work with the text based version of yast so I'm running into a dead end as far as that's concerned. 
> > > 
> > > Any help greatly appreciated.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Darragh
> > > 
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> > Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.202.494.7040
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Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.202.494.7040
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com
Bringing the Owasys 22C screenless cell phone to the U.S. and Canada. Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more.

Chair, Accessibility Workgroup		Free Standards Group (FSG)
janina at freestandards.org		http://a11y.org