Hi, Charles! I think that the closest existing solution on which the future X-window screen reader could be built is XVI software from Beam LTD in England. Would you like me to send you their website? Best regards, Victor ----- Original Message ----- From: "charles crawford" <ccrawford@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 1:40 PM Subject: Development cost proposal needed. > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
