New Linux PDA For Blind People

[Janina Sajka]

What is that old saying about should and would? Something like "If
wishes were horses ..."

Lorenzo Taylor writes:
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> Actually, the few thousand more sales would, or at least should justify making a
> mainstream device usable by disabled people.  We're talking about a few thousand
> more sales over the few million sales they already make.  More is always better.
> And since they have already done the bulk of the r&d to simply make their
> product work, it isn't a big jump to make it work for people whose eyes don't
> work, especially since most of that r&d has already been done, and not just by
> assistive technology companies, but by companies who make products and services
> we use every day, such as TellMe, (voice recognition) and IBM, (voice
> recognition and voice synthesis).  It is actually an extremely simple matter to
> figure out how to get info to a speech synthesizer, and translation of voice
> commands to typed characters and menu commands has already been done on a number
> of fronts.