Red Hat Enterprise 6.2

[Amanda Rush]

I spoke to my local and state NFB representatives last year around this
time, and was told that if I could find a lawyer who would take this on,
and provide the money and other such, then the NFB would then maybe be
willing to back this. But since I'm not rich, and don't have steady work,
this is pretty much impossible. I would love to find someone possibly more
in the know/higher up to talk to. People's jobs and educations are on the
line because of this.



-----Original Message-----
From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces at linux-speakup.org] On Behalf Of John
G. Heim
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 10:48 AM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2

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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