From: "Christian Hofstaedtler" ch@grml.org To: grml@ml.grml.org
speakup kernel modules and espeakup have already been removed in the daily builds; they will not make it into the next release.
Okay, now I'm unclear as to why this is. The original post said the grml developers don't want to do anything half baked. But including speakup & espeak isn't doing it half baked. That's just mainstream. You don't need to do anything fancy anymore to provide accessibility.
I mean, I can see dropping that script you used to supply that started software speech. I could never remember what to type so I always just started speech myself at the command line. Maybe the grml developers are under the impression that blind people don't use grml. I don't think that's true. In fact, there seems to be several of us blind people on this list. For every one of us, there are probably dozens or hundreds of others.
I think the grml developers should think hard about this decision. Dropping speakup isn't like dropping other features. If grml can't recognize someoby's old ethernet card, they're not going to lose their job. But if I can't use grml to rescue a server, I might lose my job.
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