Hi Everyone, OK, now we need to cut to the chase. I believe I can get the resources needed to speed the development of the speech interface for X-windows and generic Linux text as well using speakup or whatever we all need. It is in the interests of blind computer users to have an alternative to Windows where we are not paying constantly for access. I need to know what it would take to guet us there in the shortest realistic time frame. Armed with that kind of information, we can write a grant proposal for ACBspeak or whatever we call it. My view is that if we can get a robust Linux solution that would allow blind folks to get real access to an inexpensive operating system which we could use to do what we need and also to access the Microsoft apps through emulators, then we really could go a long way to creating a level playing field with a host of options rather than constantly trying to catch up to main apps and forsaking the others. Not only that, but we could use software we want rather than software we are forced to use. How about it? -- charlie Crawford.
