speakup and touchpad questions

[Jude DaShiell]

On the Dell latitude c-800 laptop I have there's a touchpad on the 
keyboard.  When I took the machine over to smartco I asked a technician to 
tell me if the touchpad was working and he told me it is working because 
when I put my finger on it and move my finger around on the touchpad, a 
cursor moves matching my finger motions.  What we also noticed though was 
speakup did not track that cursor and speak as text was traversed. Would 
it even be useful to enable speakup with touchpads?