User Interface Issues

[Steve Holmes]

I'm a strong believer that all one's personal financial data should be
housed on his/her local machine. Hence a fat client to do all the
manipulation to the data. As this thing evolves, I wouldn't mind seeing
what could be done to "hook it up" to financial institutions like they do
with Quicken and Money. They probably use a licensed protocle that would
require a fee or something but that would be a long ways from what I'm
starting with. But if this thing were really gonna take off, that sure
would be worth looking into. I have always felt that communication between
software applications and other "servers" should always be open and
public! I typically hate proprietary interfaces and protocoles.

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Janina Sajka wrote:

> 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
> >
>
>