Thanks to Samuel and Okash, Kirk and all the others over the years

[Willem van der Walt]

Same from me!
These guys does a lot of work, and it is tricky stuff.
Regards, Willem

On Mon, 1 Apr 2019, Tom Fowle wrote:

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> A hearty second to Janina's thanks to both Samuel and Okash.
> I wasn't aware of their "screen reader usage" status till recently.
>
> Your efforts are very much appreciated.
>
> Tom Fowle
>
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 05:45:55AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
>> Samuel:
>>
>> I just want to thank you for many critical contributions to Linux
>> accessibility over the past 15 years or more, and especially for your
>> contributions to Speakup.
>>
>>
>> I suspect not  everyone on list is aware that you, yourself don't rely on screen
>> reading technology. I believe the same is true of Okash. My thanks to
>> both of you for keeping our favorite interface tools viable on our
>> favorite platform.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Janina
>>
>>
>>
>> Samuel Thibault writes:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Kirk Reiser, le ven. 29 mars 2019 18:03:07 -0400, a ecrit:
>>>> I mistakenly assumed that you had others on the accessibility team
>>>> helping to catch problems as they come through. I figured as picky as
>>>> the kernel folks were that they would have scads of volunteers helping
>>>> make sure every brace and blank line was properly placed.
>>>
>>> In general about accessibility stuff, assume lack of manpower :/
>>>
>>>> Maybe something changed in the scheduling of the package
>>>> installation to remove the positioning of stopping a running
>>>> application and restarting it.
>>>
>>> It seems it happened on migrating to a systemd service.
>>> I've always said systemd would bring issues in all kind of places ;
>>> that's basically one of them, and lack of testing and actual reporting
>>> made it appear.
>>>
>>>> p.s. I believe we've just passed the 20th anniversary of my first releasees of speakup.
>>>
>>> Oh, I thought it was older than that.
>>>
>>> Samuel
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>>
>> --
>>
>> Janina Sajka
>>
>> Linux Foundation Fellow
>> Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org
>>
>> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
>> Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
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