[access-uk] Re: Fwd: [nvda] Please help to keep nvda alive.
- From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:10:23 +0000
Whatever about 3rd world, there are people on this list using it.
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From: Saqib
Sent: 18/03/2012, 12:01 pm
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Fwd: [nvda] Please help to keep nvda alive.
Hi. You can also rent System Access for around £6 per month and get free
updates for life. I've never really got on with NVDA but I do think it is
important for people in the third world.
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From: ron sears
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 9:27 AM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Fwd: [nvda] Please help to keep nvda alive.
Wrong, satogo is free.= System Access.
Cheers
Ron
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From: "austin pinto" <austinpinto.xaviers@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 6:38 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Fwd: [nvda] Please help to keep nvda alive.
hi all i got this artical from the nvda list please help to keep this
fantastic and only free screan reader for windows alive by donating
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From: Kevin Cussick <the.big.white.shepherd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:18:55 +0000
Subject: [nvda] Please help to keep nvda alive.
To: "nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi all,
Not to sure how recent this is.
just saw the date so ignore that last statement but I hope the mods do
not mind me posting this here please folks consider donating to nvda it
would be a huge loss to everyone if this fantastic screen reader goes
belly up because of the lack of funds. article below I am forwarding
this to some other people who do use nvda please read this.
Blind ambition: plea for funds to keep free software project alive
Sylvia Pennington, The Sydney Morning Herald
March 16, 2012
CAPTION: NVDA co-creator James The at the Young Australian of the Year
2012 ceremony.
Two Australian programmers may be forced to abandon their not-for-profit
work that allows blind
people around the world to join in social networks and the information
age if funding is not
forthcoming.
Twenty-seven year old James Teh and his co-developer Michael Curran have
spent the past four years
building the open source screen reader Non Visual Desktop Access (NVDA)
for the Windows operating
system. The reader is free, available in 20 languages and has been
downloaded more than 45,000 times
since November.
The NVDA program can translate whatever the cursor touches into
synthetic speech, enabling blind
users to hear what the rest of the population is able to read on the
screen.
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Although similar readers are available commercially, they can cost
several hundred dollars to
install and upgrade; a sum which is beyond the reach of many vision
impaired users, Teh said.
"We've had a lot of positive feedback that it's changed lives,
especially in the developing world,"
Teh said. "Users have a sense of gratitude for the system - for access
to things not previously
accessible."
Many blind people have not had access to free screen reader technology
in Australia outside
educational settings and this has impeded their ability to interact
socially and look for jobs, he
said. The unemployment rate among blind and vision-impaired people
wanting to work is currently 63
per cent, according to research from Vision Australia.
Given the ways in which technology could transform the lives of the
blind, it was imperative that
barriers to entry were made as low as possible, Teh said.
As well as providing access to vast reserves of information not
previously available in bulky
Braille tomes or audio form, the internet can open up a world of
services which make tasks of daily
living such as shopping and banking easier. Being able to participate in
social networking also
allows blind people to expand their contact with friends, family and the
wider world.
"Technology for everyone has become part of daily life," Teh said. "If
it is critical for sighted
people, it's much more critical for blind people."
Himself blind since infancy due to retinal cancer, Teh is no stranger to
the obstacles faced by the
vision impaired when attempting to lead a regular, independent life.
A talented pianist and passionate programmer from a young age - "it's
mostly text so you don't need
to see it" - he completed mainstream schooling at Brisbane's Nudgee
College before graduating with a
degree in IT from Queensland University of Technology in 2005.
A first job as a programmer with local internet security entrepreneur
Trent Davis at Netbox Blue
followed, before he joined forces with Curran in 2008.
Ensuring the NVDA reader keeps pace with the upgrade cycle of major
software packages is a full time
job for the pair. But despite attracting a swag of accolades, including
an ABC New Inventors award
in 2010 and a spot for Teh on the 2012 finalists list for Young
Australian of the Year, funding to
continue the work has been hard won and precariously retained.
The pair received modest funding from Microsoft, Adobe and Yahoo in the
past and the Mozilla
Foundation continues to provide ongoing support but they are seeking a
larger commitment to continue
developing and updating the software to keep up with the upgrade cycle
of major programs.
Teh says they need $200,000 to cover overheads and provide themselves
with a modest living wage.
Unless further backing was secured, Teh said it was likely he would have
to look for other work
later this year to support his family.
"I would love to continue what I do and am really driven to do it," Teh
said. "A free screen reader
for Windows does need to exist. It's disappointing that there's not much
funding for the work at all
in Australia. It's very difficult to raise money when you don't have
experience in the
not-for-profit sphere and no one dedicated to doing it."
SOURCE
http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/blind-ambition-plea-for-funds-to-keep-free-software-project-alive-20120316-1v99i.html#ixzz1pMkjCzGh
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