Welcome to the Speakup Modified Fedora Distribution Home Page.
Announcing SpeakupModified's Fedora 13, "Goddard,"
We're pleased to offer our Speakup Modified kernels and our installation ISO images for Fedora 13, "Goddard."
Fedora 13: Goddard
Speakup Modified Installation ISO Images
Now Available! We're pleased to announce 32-bit, 64-bit, and sourcecode installation media for the Speakup Modified Fedora 13, "Goddard." Follow this link to Download Goddard modified with Speakup, our version of the Fedora Project's Fedora 13 Linux distribution.
Directly Access our Kernel RPMs
You can download any of our Speakup Modified kernels, or any other file from any of our ISO images using one of the following links:
Cautions Caveats & Kudos
Protect Your Data!
p>WARNING! WARNING! WARNINGRed Hat has modified the text installation screens used by the Speakup Modified Fedora so that it is no longer possible to exclude a partition on the disk where you're installing the Speakup Modified from being wiped clean and overwritten. If you have only one hard drive in your computer, you will probably want to back up your /home files before starting an installation, because they won't be there when you finish! If your /home is on a separate hard drive, one you will not use for your installation, you're safe and your files will not disappear--unless, of course, you ask to have that drive formatted. p>EXCEPTION
The Fedora installation now provides an options to upgrade from an earlier Fedora installation. If you're upgrading from Fedora 12, "Constantine," you are probably safe choosing this option in which your partitions will not be modified and your /home will not be overwritten. We say "probably," because there are no guarantees. However, we can report that we've great success using this option. Please do not try to upgrade from an older Fedora in this manner.
Important Audio Caution
Beginning with Fedora 8 and continuing to the present, Red
Hat uses something called Pulse Audio to manage audio both on the graphical
desktop and on the command line console. While there have been improvements to
the accessibility of pulseaudio, we continue to recommend you disable pulse
audio for now by commenting line 9 in the file /etc/asound.conf so that it begins with a # symbol and reads as follows:
# "/etc/alsa/pulse-default.conf"
Tiresias Large-Print Fonts
Fedora now includes the Tiresias large-print fonts recently released under the GPL by the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) in the United Kingdom. If you benefit from large-print, check out the Tiresias font options anywhere you can choose fonts on the Fedora desktop--including in Open Office!
No Serial Synth May Be No Problem!
IMPORTANT! Very few of today's computers provide serial ports. Thus, the traditional way to install the Speakup Modified is increasingly unavailable. However, there is still a way to enjoy an accessible Speakup Modified installation. Read our mini-howto about Using Telnet To Install The Speakup Modified. If you do not have a hardware synth, perhaps you can use telnet to install.
What About Using Software Speech
Some people are reporting success using Orca with the Fedora Live images when logged in as root. There's no Speakup Modified Live as of yet, though we are working on it.
Files for TTSynth
All publically available files formerly at TTSynth.com are available here, including source for the TTSynth Speakup Connector: TTSynth Files Repository.
Telephone Help Is Available!
Blind people using Speakup to install Fedora are invited to call Bill Acker by voice telephone for direct, personal assistance at +1.303.777.8123 in the USA's Mountain Time Zone, -02:00 U.S. Eastern Time (New York).
About Us
The Speakup Modified Fedora distribution is maintained by William Acker
This webpage is maintained by Janina Sajka
The Speakup Modified Fedora Distribution is a distribution of
GNU/Linux enhanced with
Speakup: The world's
leading Linux screen reader
Because equal access to all system
functions is a blind computer user's right, from bootup to
shutdown!