FreeLists / ossrp-control / [ossrp-control] Re: So, where do you want the project to go?

["Juan Hernandez" <juanh@xxxxxxx>]

.net framework should be installed on more and more computers as time goes 
buy.  newer applications, that either get upgraded to a .net language, or 
get written in a .net language from bottum up require the framework, so this 
idea of a portable screen reader is exciting, and hopefully very possible in 
the near future.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Will Pearson" <will-pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ossrp-control@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 7:12 AM
Subject: [ossrp-control] Re: So, where do you want the project to go?


> Hey Tony and Rick,
>
> That sounds like a great idea.  I did know, from talking to Mike at 
> Freedom
> Box last year, that they were working on their USB Freedom Key, or at 
> least
> that's what I think it was called.
>
> I think this would solve one important issue for those in some types of
> employment or voluntary work, or just for personal use, and that's 
> mobility.
> Gone are the days of just sitting at one deskand using the same computer.
> Whilst this is still reality for quite a few people, some offices are 
> using
> techniques such as hot desking, and people out on the road may need to use 
> a
> computer wherever they can find one.
>
> If we go down the route of using .Net based languages, which seems the 
> most
> sensible option at the moment, then the computers will need to have the 
> .Net
> Framework installed, but this is a simple download from Windows Update.
>
> I think this is something that should definately be seriously considered, 
> as
> it fits in more with how people actually live.
>
> Will
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tony Broome" <tb777@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ossrp-control@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 12:20 AM
> Subject: [ossrp-control] Re: So, where do you want the project to go?
>
>
>> Now, you're talkin, Rick.  That's what we are doing in effect now, with
>> the FreedomBox PassKey, a credit card sized cd which is dropped into
>> any cd rom drive of a windows-based pc.  You have all of FreedomBox and
>> the internet including instant messaging with you on the go, where ever
>> you are.  This same concept not only could work with a screen reading
>> solution for Long Horn, but, as Microsoft has promised to improve the
>> auto run problem which is now being experienced with some USB devices,
>> one could actually use a USB plug-in type device for this universal
>> access dream come true.
>> A small disclaimer here:  These thoghts on FreedomBox are not to try
>> and sell anything.  They are only presented here for the enlightenment
>> and enrichment of information for the blind and disabled world.
>>
>> -- 
>> Email services by FreedomBox.  Surf the Net at the sound of your voice.
>> www.freedombox.info
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