Installation of Redhat without a sighted assistance

["Victor Tsaran" <vtsaran nimbus ocis temple edu>]

Hello, listers!
Has anyone tried to contact Redhat concerning making their installation more
accessible to the blind? At this point the only way I can see is in using
the kickstart script. However, in a couple of cases I have seen it doesn't
exactly follow the logic of what is outlined in the README file that
accompanies the utility. Microsoft WIndows, for a long time already, allowed
its users to install itself with just a similar script. (Although it was
rarely documented). Redhat went quite ahead with their  kickstart procedure,
which might prove to be useful. However, there are two problems:
1. Users with little knowledge of Linux and how the process of
repartitioning works can be easily disoriented. If the script is
badly-constructed or Redhat is confused about something, it will just stop
and ask you certain questions, which is of no use to the blind. So,
certainly, a more context-sensitive help would be needed here.
2. The structure of Redhat installation, as I understand it, doesn't allow
blind users to get speech output before installation is finished. Kirk with
his Speakup has a very nice idea of compiling speech into kernel. Do you
think it would be possible to make this a standart on all Linux
distributions? Say, they would include a kernel with precompiled speech and,
of course, the speech patch would incorporate some automation routines to
detect a speech synth.

Should we start perhaps bugging Redhat and others? Can we? Is it fair?
Let me know what you think.
Victor