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, Well Christopher, at least you seem to have understood the article or blogg 
better than I
did.  I thought that Orca, the free Open Source screen readerbeing refered to 
was primarily
a Lynux based dproject but Sun Micro-Systems was also mentioned on a link I 
followed.  there
is a suggestion there may be a version/compilation that runs under Windows 
though.

Maybe someone on BCT or Main Menu will pick up on it if Orca can run under 
Windows.  As
someone on the blogg said, people have to know about it before they even try it.

I was interested, and more than a little amuzed, by the guy who seemed to say 
no more would
he want to upset the status quo in Access tech provision than the model of 
health care in
the U S.  Really?  I'd imagine quite a few Americans might have another opinion 
on that!  In
fact the American take on this is interesting in itself and some of the 
assertions about how
folk there get their access tech.  It seemed to be said that most get it via 
Federal or
other sources of funding, including charity.  I know that in many cases if you 
do get access
tech through a charity in the U S they will dictate which screen reader you 
use.  Think
we've been there before.  Also though I know quite a few Americans actually do 
fork out from
their own pockets for screen readers and other devices.

Having taken some space giving my thoughts, I hope someone comes up with more 
concreet
information on Orca and how it performs.

From Ray
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Christopher Hallsworth


What a good article. I'm not familiar with Open Source software, but yes
I do think user participation should be encouraged, so that we disabled
computer users has a choice on whether to get commercial software or
free ones. Thanks for pointing us to this article, and I look forward to
any further comments/feedback regarding this. Thanks.
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 12:07:11 -0000, "Catherine Turner"
<catherineturner2000@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> Hi,
>
> Just wondered what people thought of this blog entry about open source,
> user
> participation and alternatives to expensive software:
> http://blog.carrolltech.org/archives/70
> **
> Skype:  darkitude
> MSN:  catherineturner2000@xxxxxxxxxxx
>

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