installing speakup on RHEL 7/8

[Linux for blind general discussion]

This is definitely great news!!  So what's next from here?

As you said Janina it's probably not going to help me in the short run, but
at least we know it's coming [I hope]

I have contacted IBM Accessibility and awaiting their response, let's hope
someone over there knows something about speakup and RHEL

--David


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Subject: Re: installing speakup on RHEL 7/8

Indeed, but this conversation started over the question of Speakup in a RHEL
kernel.

So, now that we've established the technical objections are all cleared, it
will be interesting whether Speakup is promoted to main or not. If it goes
into main, RHEL would seemingly need to include it at long last. Or am I
wrong about that?

I'm watching to see whether we still have political opposition as we have in
the past, by my memory of events. One would hope not, but it's deeds that
count.

Best,

Janina

Linux for blind general discussion writes:
> Linux for blind general discussion, le mer. 29 juil. 2020 17:24:15 +0200,
a ecrit:
> > Not that it matters much for Slackware and derivatives as speakup 
> > drivers have been provided in Slackware since version 8.0 released 
> > on 2001-06-27, in kernel version 2.2.19...
> 
> Yes, Debian as well. Just one thing: remember to enable 
> CONFIG_ACCESSIBILITY if it's not already.
> 
> Samuel
> 
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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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