Re: Support for the blind -- (was Re: Centrino support?

[Audioslave - 7M3 - Live <creed7m3live@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matt Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:32:44PM -0500, Audioslave - 7M3 - Live wrote:
>
> > Being that I email with a lot of people that cannot see. I was wondering 
> > if readers for braille are being worked on.
>
>
> Yes, this is an important area that we were able to improve in Red Hat
> Linux 8.0 when we included the Linux kernel "speakup" patches, which
> drive various hardware voice synthesizers and braille readers.
> Unfortunately we found that the patch had very bad interactions with
> some keyboard layouts (mostly non-US layouts).  Because the patch
> isn't set up to be modular, there's no way to limit the exposure of
> speakup to only those who need it.  Unfortunately we weren't able to
> address all of our concerns in time to include speakup in Red Hat
> Linux 9.
>
> We're also investigating the work that's currently underway to provide
> Accessibility Technology hooks into GUI environment.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matt
> msw@xxxxxxxxxx
> --
> Matt Wilson
> Manager, Base Operating Systems
> Red Hat, Inc.

Thanks for the info. I'll hold off on pushing this on my friends without 
sight just yet. When the problems are resolved, I'll push harder to get 
them to try it out.
These sound like very worthwhile projects.

Jim

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