Re: Solaris 10 released, with accessibility built-in! Also FreeTTS1.2 released.

[Ken Perry <whistler blinksoft com>]

One question I did down load solaris 10 and am going to try it out as 
soon as I get a free drive which should be rather soon.  I don't see an 
accessible install doc anywhere.  does solaris install talk?  If so is 
there some place I can go to read how it works?

KenOn Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Peter 
Korn wrote:

> Hi Kenny, Ken,
> 
> Solaris 10 is a shipping UNIX that is based on GNOME 2.6.x with
> accessibility components from GNOME 2.8.x, our 1.7 branch of accessible
> Mozilla, and lots of other goodies (details in my blog).  But I don't mean
> to claim it is "the best access to the GNOME desktop" - if I implied that
> anywhere, it wasn't my intention.  It is, to my knowledge, the only
> commercially shipping accessible GNOME desktop, which is a different
> statement.
> 
> As Bill Haneman noted, Solaris 10 is (of necessity) behind GNOME HEAD, which
> has yet still more bug fixes, improvements, etc. beyond what is in Solaris
> 10.
> 
> Ken - I'm delighted to hear about what will be going into Fedora Core 4. 
> The more (accessible UNIX or GNU/Linux systems) the merrier! 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter Korn
> Sun Accessibility team
> 
> Kenny Hitt wrote:
> > 
> > Hi.  I already run Debian unstable with some packages built from source.
> > 
> > At the risk of starting a flame war, I like Debian over Redhat/Fedora.
> > 
> > My interest in Solaris was because of a message on the blinux list from
> > Peter Korn stating the best access to the Gnome desktop was with the
> > latest release of Solaris.  I would like to try it to see how close my
> > access to Gnome in Linux compares with the access to Gnome in Solaris.
> > 
> >           Kenny
> > 
> > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:34:27AM -0800, Ken Perry wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I downloaed it with Widnows XP but know this it is not the best
> > > accessiblity in fact Core 4 will ahve the same stuff Solaris 10 has
> > > thats Fedora Core 4 in fact if you can upgrade to the beta core 4 in
> > > march it will have everything this release of Solaris had.
> > >
> > > KenOn Tue, 1 Mar
> > > 2005, Kenny
> > > Hitt wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi.  I'm just wondering if any one has managed to download this using a
> > > > Linux system?
> > > >
> > > > I can't seem to regester with elinks 0.10.2 or lynx 2.8.5.
> > > >
> > > > Parts of the site are accessible with Mozilla, but I keep running into
> > > > garbage text for some parts of the page.  If I compare results from
> > > > elinks and lynx to what I get with Mozilla, maybe I can eventually
> > > > figure things out.
> > > >
> > > > Since the release info suggests Solaris will provide the best
> > > > accessibility to Gnome, I would like to try it.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance.
> > > >           Kenny
> > > >
> > > > PS  I understand I will have use either a serial console or a ssh
> > > > session to do the install, but that is acceptable as long as I can get
> > > > it up and running.
> > > >
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