Hi, Charley! The website of Beam LTD from England that worked on the XVI project is www.beam.demon.co.uk/xvi/ Best regards, Victor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Crawford" <ccrawford@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 6:44 PM Subject: Re: Development cost proposal needed. > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
