I will look at anything during the consideration phase. Thanks. -- charlie. At 05:02 PM 1/24/02 +0100, you wrote: >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 at acb.org> >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 > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
