New Linux PDA For Blind People

Lorenzo Taylor lorenzo at taylor.homelinux.net
Fri Mar 31 10:36:39 EST 2006


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According to John covici:
# I disagree -- making a mainstream computer blind friendly costs quite
# a lot by someone -- its not just voice synthesis -- its getting the
# right info to the synthesizer which costs so much because Microsoft
# does not provide the appropriate hooks in theirOS to do it simply and
# because applications are not always well behaved -- look at the
# trouble they had to do to to make Microsoft Word accessible -- it took
# quite a number of man years to do that.

Proving again my point.  Microsoft should be the one to make their own products
blind-friendly.  Any cost involved in this undertaking would be offset by the
overbloated price of the Windows OS and their office suite and by the extremely
deep pockets of Bill Gates.

Lorenzo
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