speakup is nice

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 03:10:10PM -0500, Terry D. Cudney wrote:
>    Why do we want access to the gui? Only because the majority of the computer users in the world are sighted and they like to point-and-click. If  we had a java/javascript-enabled browser that worked in the cli with speakup, I don't think we'd be looking at orca or other gui access schemes at all. 

Here here!

Also, I'll throw in my own bit here, by saying that if it wasn't for
speakup, I'd probably still be stuck in windows 24/7. I remember
wanting to play with something called redhat somewhere around
1996/1997, but I knew at the time of no way to get it to talk, so I
went from dos to using win95 instead. It wasn't until somewhere around
late 2000, when windows started really getting to me with everyday
use, that I investigated again, and found linux-speakup.org, and even
install media for some distros, which would let me do the install
independently! My biggest hurdle after that was to learn how to use
this think called gnu/linux, and by extension the unix systems, but I
think I haven't done badly there either, again in part to the helpful
folks on this list.

I also wouldn't ever have tried netbsd without speakup. While I could
still have installed via a serial console, and ssh in from windows,
given the comfort of using ssh in windows when compared to using it
from gnu/linux with speakup, I think that in itself would have made me
give up shortly after starting, assuming I did in the first place.

So, yes indeed, thanks to you Kirk, and the rest of those who made,
and continue to make speakup happen.

Greg


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