[access-uk] Re: Fw: Dolphin Pen at Sight Village
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:50:46 +0100
James, GW's Chief has made this point. I think it is very little use waving
the DDA at organisations who won't install the necessary DCM software, or more
mportantly, allow access to USB ports on their network computers. We have
enough trouble keeping nasties off our machines without public organisations
dropping their guard too.
That said, I can certainly see the advantages of the Penn as it would obviously
allow a user to access family and friends computers, and some less public
organisations such as Universityies, or maybe your local vol org.
Neverthetheless I do not think its realistic to exspect as of right to be able
to walk up to any computer and use it, as exceptional as your needs might be.
Ray
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----- Original Message -----
From: "James O'Dell" <jamesodell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 1:16 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Fw: Dolphin Pen at Sight Village
>I think there are some really big problems with the Dolphin Pen, when you
> think how little your average public librarian will know about access
> technology. OK they are writing to every library in the country or
> whatever, but I would be very interested to hear what kind of response they
> get. still, they may be happier installing this one, free component than a
> full product with its own licence. System access sounds like the better
> option if you don't need magnification, apparently it can even run on guest
> accounts, no DCM required. I think Dolphin would have been better off
> developing a separate, more basic product using MsAA instead or something
> like that, that would truly run anywhere so long as the sound card was
> enabled. Now they have the problem that they can't really introduce any new
> features into their line of products that won't work on the pen.
>
> The main use I can see for the Dolphin Pen would be in universities etc with
> their own IT departments who can install the DCM on every machine or
> whatever, no need for a network licence. It would also be useful for people
> who do computer maintenance and training, no need to install software.
>
> James
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