Re: Accessibility issues of GUI interface in Linux

[Janina Sajka <janina afb net>]

Hi, Toby:

No, I had no problem getting the Emacspeak distribution. I just think it
should be an optional install as Linux is installed by whatever
distribution provides assisted installs, and that it and other appropriate
blindness tools should be part of the distributions. I'm glad to hear that
it is part of Slackware. This is as it should be. What I'm suggesting is
that it would be appropriate for packagers, like Redhat, to directly
support the installation.


				Janina Sajka, Director
				Information Systems Research & Development
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

janina afb net


On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Toby Fisher wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > May I suggest something slightly different? I agree we don't want a quote
> > "special" end quote distribution of Linux. But I think we can expect that
> > our standard tools could be installed by a standard Linux install. I
> > thought, for example, that Emacspeak now shipped as part of a Linux
> > distribution. I believe I read that on this list many moons ago. Maybe I
> > was dreaming, because it was unavailable under Redhat 6 install.
> I don't use redhat, but Emacs-speak version 9.0 is available with
> Slackware 4.0, the latest version.  I don't use Emacs or Emacs-speak, but
> I just did a search on the distribution tree I've got stored on my hard
> drive, and sure enough, it's there.
> 
> This means that you can probably get the .tgz file from ftp.cdrom.com
> somewhere in the /pub/linux/slackware-4.0 distribution tree.  I would
> suggest that anyone doing this look in 
> /pub/linux/slackware-4.0/slakware/e/, since that's where the Emacs
> distribution lives.
> 
> Cheers.
>  
> Toby Fisher, Systems Administrator Work: toby fisher kingston-internet net
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