New Linux PDA For Blind People

[Janina Sajka]

If you're talking about me, I'm a she, not a he. 

PS: I've been wrong on many things, but this time you're the one who's
wrong. <grin>

BlindTech of BlindTechs.Net writes:
> hey lerenzo, just quit while your ahead man. I agree wityh everything  
> you say, but with this perticular person you are disagreeing with, he  
> likes to be in the spot light and being right. so there's no use.  
> he'll always say your wrong.
> 
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> 
> On Mar 30, 2006, at 6:10 PM, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > Lorenzo Taylor writes:
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> >> According to Janina Sajka:
> >> # As for your rationale, let me ask you this? If it's so possible,  
> >> how
> >> # come no one has done it?
> >>
> >> It has been done before.  Or more to the point, it is being done.   
> >> Apple
> >> has built a screen reader into their operating system.  No, it isn't
> >> absolutely perfect, but we can expect improvement as it  
> >> developes.  LG
> >> has put speech into some of their phones that allows a blind  
> >> person to
> >> access the menu system.  The question isn't why isn't anyone doing  
> >> it,
> >> but rather why aren't more companies doing it.
> >
> >
> > Lorenzo, you have so much to learn. LG didn't puyt speech into a  
> > few of
> > their phones because they wanted to. It had everything to do with a
> > formal complaint at the FCC over accessibility. It was nothing but  
> > good
> >
> > old fashioned arm twisting. It was certainly not market economics  
> > as you
> > suggest.
> >
> > PS: I know. I was there in the middle of it.
> >
> > old fashioned arm twisting, and most certainly not market economics.
> >
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