Linux on access technology

[Janina Sajka]

I'm not concerned whether or not it's sufficfiently profitable for
commercial business. There are plenty of nonprofits that would take this
up, if the value could be demonstrated.

The forthcoming approx $500 braille device coming from APH is an
example. It will also be a note taker, apparently.


Janina

Gregory Nowak writes:
> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 03:36:41AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > This is a pretty sound idea, imo. If we had a box with speakers, braille
> > keyboard, basic other IO like RJ45, audio, etc., but could simply swap
> > in mb from time to time to pick up on enhanced cpu, ram, etc., wouldn't
> > that be pretty future proof? 
> 
> Yup, but I can only see a nonprofit or an individual creating such an
> option. No for profit company would go for it. Can you imagine the
> loss in revenue if in order to upgrade all a user had to do is to
> replace the mobo on their own? Let's take it further. What if the
> entire thing including case and hardware could be printed on a 3d
> printer, and the stl files were freely available? Keep the cost of the
> entire thing down to $200 maybe $300 per unit. Allow a bit more if the
> user wanted a braille display, maybe those could be 3d printed some
> day too. I wonder if someone started something like that on
> kickstarter, if it would take off?
> 
> Greg
> 
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Janina Sajka,	Phone:	+1.443.300.2200
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Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa