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Hi. Well, I managed to get SUSE 9.3 installed this morning. Sadly, however,
it seems that the commitment to making SUSE accessible right from the ground up
has disappeared, along with the acquisition of the operatingg system by Novell.
Unless there is something I have missed, the installation is now totally
inaccessible to blind people. This, from my perspective at least, is a huge
step backwards. Since, now that I have it installed, I can't do anything with
it. I can't even change any settings, because I have no access to the KDE
desktop. So unless this changes in some way, looks like SUSE was indeed a
waste of money, and is now dead in the water for blind people. It may be
useful once you get it installed with accessibility options enabled. But there
doesn't seem to be any easy method of doing that. The requests for help from
SUSE themselves have so far been totally ignored. In other words, I've hit a
brick wall which, it seems, there's no way around. At least Redhat went out of
their way to compile kernels which give accessibility from the ground up. Ah
well, come back Fedora ... all's forgiven. But unless things change radically
again for the better, looks like I'll just have to put SUSE down to experience,
and move on.
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