Accessibility removed
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.1 Comment: A Member Of The TFT BBS Digital Security Initiative iQA/AwUBQn9OyT1/+g3FKWpGEQLIewCgyIQ2w46YYK3q6DLFG4Ll19VcPnUAoIjp qs+iWx9/skxUDjLZNA/17+ZU =10Sd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Gordon Smith