Hi Will, Can you list the founding individuals besides yourself? Sorry if it's mentioned somewhere and I missed it. Jamal -----Original Message----- From: ossrp-control-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ossrp-control-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Will Pearson Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 10:32 AM To: ossrp-control@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ossrp-control] Re: So, where do you want the project to go? Hi Lyn, That's something I would like to cover in time. Hopefully we can bring in=20 someone familiar with screen magnifiers, or develop the skills in house. The original five people, myself included, who originally came up with this=20 project are all screen reader users, and so that's where our skills lie, but=20 I for one am willing to try and figure out how screen magnifiers work. So,=20 it's something I would definately like to get around to doing, and hopefully=20 we will in time. Will ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Lyn Eagers" <lists.leagers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <ossrp-control@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 12:33 AM Subject: [ossrp-control] Re: So, where do you want the project to go? > Hi all, > > I am a screen reader user and think developing one such as being discussed > here is exciting. However, there are more people who would benefit from > screen magnification and not just a small magnifier that is moved around=20 > the > screen, as is currently available in Windows XP and 2000. > > By a screen magnifier I mean something that does the whole screen and that > offers features such as changing colour contrasts. > > With the world's aging population ever on the increase, the number of=20 > people > with vision loss is increasing too. Many of these will never lose so much > sight as to need to rely on a screen reader. Maybe we wouldn't need > something that goes up to sixteen times magnification, as that makes it=20 > too > difficult to work on the screen. > > Just my thoughts. > > Regards, > Lyn > > > >=20 To post to the list, send a message to: ossrp-control@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send a message to: ossrp-control-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and set the subject field of the message to "unsubscribe" (without the quotes