Speakup and Suse 9.3 Professional

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Darragh:

If you absolutely must have direct access to the GUI, I think you're
going to find Suse 9.3 impractical. That's my kindest word for it.

If, however, you can work on the CLI, I suspect you'll have excellent
access with suse-blinux. I do believe there's an unresolved issue with
text based yast, currently, that would need to be resolved. I'm sure
Marco is working on it. You would also need a supported braille display.
When I last looked, Suse was big on displays common in Europe, but not
so much on those used more here in North America.

So, what's the job? Can you say?

Darragh writes:
> Right.  Sounds like this job could be a bit more of a challange than I
> thought.
> 
> Realisticly, do you think someone can work with Suse using speech or
> Braille?


> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
> Sent: 06 July 2005 14:30
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: Speakup and Suse 9.3 Professional
> 
> 
> We tried patching Speakup into a Suse kernel on two separate occasions
> and were ultimately unsuccessful. We were able to get the kernel patched
> and able to get Speakup to speak initially during boot, but the kernel
> Oops'd, and we never got beyond that.
> 
> We also tried Brltty on Suse with mixed results, but this was before I
> understood about suse-blinux.
> 
> Darragh writes:
> > Hello,
> > I've done some searching and although it looks like speakup isn't included
> in suse 9.3 right from installation it does seem possible
> > to patch the kernel with it after installation.
> >
> > Unfortunately I've a bit of a problem. I need to provide support for
> installations of Suse 9.3 Professional. This will mean that
> > I'll need to get speakup working during installation or I'll need to find
> another way of independantly installing Suse with either
> > speech or Braille support.
> >
> > I would be for ever in debt of the person who can help me out with this.
> >
> > I do have a Pacmate 40 cell Braille display. I think someone told me a few
> years ago that BrailleTTY could provide Braille support
> > during installation of Suse. Is this correct?
> >
> > Thanks for any help you can provide.
> >
> >
> > Darragh
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> 
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Chair, Accessibility Workgroup		Free Standards Group (FSG)
janina at freestandards.org		http://a11y.org

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.