Red Hat Enterprise 6.2

[John G. Heim]

IMO, the shocking thing isn't that REL doesn't have the speakup modules, 
it's that Red Hat apparently just threw up it's hands and said, "Sorry, 
blind people, no certs for you." Somebody should  sue them. There's no 
substitute for certification from RH itself. They *have* to make that 
accessible.

This is the kind of thing that steams my wheaties. It's part of the 
reason I help create the International Association of Visually Impaired 
Technologists (www.iavit.org).

On 03/29/2013 10:33 AM, Tony Baechler wrote:
> Yes, Speakup wasn't officially in 2.6.32 kernels, but it could still be
> compiled as modules.  Debian Squeeze ships it, but they don't use a Red
> Hat kernel.  Even now, they can still make the argument that Speakup
> isn't "official" because it's in staging which is considered unofficial.
> Regardless, there are other ways of accessing RHEL such as ssh and there
> is still no excuse why they can't comply with the ADA and make RHEL
> accessible for certification.  Also, there is yasr and Gnome Terminal
> with Orca, so even without Speakup, there is still no excuse.  That
> still doesn't address the graphical part of the requirement or the
> ability or lack thereof to use the VM.
>
> On 3/29/2013 6:18 AM, John G. Heim wrote:
>> I ttalked to someone here at the University of Wisconsin who manages
>> Red Hat
>> servers. The UW has a site license for Red Hat. I don't know anything
>> about
>> it because my department uses debian (lucky for me).
>>
>> Anyway, he said the reason RH still doesn't give you speakup is that
>> their
>> current release still uses a 2.6.32 kernel and speakup wsn't included
>> in the
>> official kernel source until 2.6.37 -- which is correct, I believe.
>>
>> In a way, I can understand where RH is coming from but, holy cow, they
>> are
>> making it impossible for blind people to get certification from them.
>> That's
>> outrageous! I mean, I hate to use this cliche but this is an outrage.
>> Personally, I don't give a flying fig about Red Hat because my department
>> uses debian. But even so, I find this unconcionable. Somebody ought to
>> sue
>> their ass.
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