installing speakup on RHEL 7/8

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Does Red Hat even have an A11y team? 

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From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
To: <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 14:44:17 -0700
Subject: RE: installing speakup on RHEL 7/8

> 
> Thanks Janina for the info, I wonder if anyone we can ask inside Red hat to
> shed some light on this topic, as I am unable to find any contact info for
> their accessibility team.
> 
> I imagine I can't be the only one out there who is trying to use speakup
> with RHEL, or am I?
> 
> --David
> 
> 
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> Subject: Re: installing speakup on RHEL 7/8
> 
> When he was still alive, Bill Acker routinely built Fedora kernels that
> included Speakup, both before and after Speakup became part of staging.
> I know for a fact that Bill tried, and never succeeded at building Speakup
> into RHEL. Now Bill's been gone for a few years, but I've no reason to
> believe the environment has suddenly become Speakup friendly, sorry to say.
> 
> No, I don't recall what the block was/were.
> 
> I know that's not what you wanted to hear, but it's the best answer I can
> provide and I don't believe you're going to find very much different info.
> I'll be happy to be proven wrong, of course.
> 
> It'll be interesting to see what RHEL does when Speakup finally becomes a
> first class kernel citizen. If I understand the situation correctly, that
> should come fairly soon.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Janina
> 
> Linux for blind general discussion writes:
> >  
> > 
> > Hi there -
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I am getting a workstation at work that will be running RHEL 7 or 8.  
> > From what I understand, speakup is not a package in yum, but it is now 
> > part of the kernel staging tree.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Does anyone have instructions on how to get speakup installed and 
> > running on RHEL 7 or 8 using software speech?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Any help appreciated, thank you very much in advance
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > --David
> > 
> >  
> > 
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> 
> Janina Sajka
> https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka
> 
> Linux Foundation Fellow
> Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org
> 
> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
> Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
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