Development cost proposal needed.

[Victor Tsaran]

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 at acb.org>
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
>