speakup is nice

[Trevor Astrope]

Yep. I've tried orca and even bought a mac. The only time I use them is 
for online banking and sites where links doesn't work. Otherwise, speakup 
is my goto screen reader.

I agree that we don't say enough just how great and liberating it is!

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, John G. Heim wrote:

> I think it's not said often enough. Speakup is really, really nice. Lets face 
> it, when the chips are down, you always fall back on speakup don't you? I 
> know I do. The accessible debian install,er, talking grml CD, plus several a 
> talking Windows installer I built myself. They all depend on speakup. Speakup 
> is like that old PC you have that always works even when that new flashiy one 
> is on the fritz again.You know what I mean? You've got your flashy new laptop 
> or whatever but in an emergency, don't you want your old one running speakup? 
> Say your network is down and you need to make a serial port connection. What 
> do you want? I want speakup. When a machine won't boot, you put in your grml 
> CD with speakup don't you? If I'm in a panic, I always just want something 
> with speakup.
>
> --
> John G. Heim
> jheim at math.wisc.edu 3-4189
> http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/
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