Speakup in Linux Open Source Summit

[Karen Lewellen]

I am reading this from a media professional and presentational   standpoint.
There were ISO cards that crated extra serial ports, and there were ISO 
cards that  provided speech.  Those might not have been the same thing. 
Further  I believe Samuel means the serial port was virtual, from a 
programming  point of view, not necessarily a physical port correct?
Additionally, will the talk  also address some of speakups weaknesses? 
that unlike many screen readers  common over time, speakup requires 
the user to remove their hands from the main keyboard to operate? 
Additionally that drivers for popular synthesizers existing in other 
programs, the reading edge for example, were never created?
Lastly, the is not it awesome! approach regarding how the program was 
started  by programmers who happened to be blind sort of screams 
generalized stereotype.
I mean there are  Astor physicists who happen to experience blindness, but 
not all those experiencing blindness are or even can be astrophysicists. 
Talking about the people behind this program as if they are  a generalized 
whole does not teach your audience much.
Kare



On Sat, 30 Mar 2019, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> Gregory Nowak, le ven. 29 mars 2019 17:02:07 -0700, a ecrit:
>>> people would either plug an
>>> external device or even put an ISA card in their computer, which gives
>>> them an additional serial port.
>>
>> The ISA cards also provided an internal speech synthesizer.
>
> Right, that's what I meant :)
> The "additional serial port" was meant from a programming point of view.
>
> Samuel
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