[Slighty-Offtopic] Fedora Accessibility

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 10:50:06AM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> Here are a cpuple of better question. When will speakup be accepted
> into the mainline kernel.. and who is pushing the effort to mainline

Probably never.

> speakup?     Accessibility kernel enhancements are more important that

Nobody to my knowledge is working seriously at making it useful, in the mean
time the hardware vendors have been making it useless because serial ports
are vanishing. I've talked to Intel and others about the need for a BIOS
level accessibility console service but that fell (pardon the choice of
phrase) on deaf ears all around.

A second problem is that many people consider the user space solutions 
already superior including blind kernel hackers so there is much less
leverage. Discussions about speakup v emacspeak and friends usually
end up as flamewars about political issues with accessibility.

Alan