This is a very interesting question. I think you're right about the overhead. But that's only true if each user needs to maintain their own. Far more interesting to me would be an application which would let me keep my own data, but also interact with my bank. In several passes at looking at banking services online it has become obvious to me that there aren't really that many applications out there--maybe half a dozen. The banks install these and then tailor their content to reflect themselves--their logos, etc. What I would really like to see is a proxy service that can be trusted both by banks and by blind consumers. I think there's currently room for this kind of creativity in services to blind and otherwise visually impaired consumers. Think of it as sort of like a BankShare. I'm punning on Jim Fruchterman's BookShare, of course, which has the blessing of the Association of American Publishers. I would think an arrangement like that could be made with the bankers as well. On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Steve Holmes wrote: > I'm thinking about writing a personal checkbook program for Linux. What > I'm curious about is what kind of interface would be most appropriate for > a bunch of blind people out there like myself. I'm leaning towards a > curses style interface - mainly for the check register but using a web > browser for the front end sounds interesting too. The only bad thing about > a web based application is that's a lot of overhead for a single user > environment - CGI scripts, Apache and all that. What do you all think? > > If I go the curses route, I would be interested in some good jump start > instruction to get the most out of it. Some of the examples I've seen so > far kinda overwelme me since I've been used to hand-holders such as Visual > Basic:). Where might one find some good curses training/instruction? > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp
