[access-uk] Re: tonight's intouch
- From: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:12:48 +0100
Hi,
The Freedom box is actually very respectful of a lot of policy settings,
and unless the system has been locked down to such a degree that it is
unusable by the sighted person that needs to use it, it will work. A
lot of people need to plug in USB devices into machines in caffes etc
because of saving data to a thumb drive. Quite often when you leave the
caffe the system is wiped to how it was at the beginning, usually using
some quick restore mechanism built into specialist software for the
specific purpose.
The problems are when we need special software like authorization or
video intercept managers to be loaded, as this is just practially not
possible.
Andrew.
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of yusuf
Sent: 11 October 2005 22:14
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] tonight's intouch
Hi all, I was slightly surprised when listening to tonight's intouch
item on
the Freedom box that someone didn't mention the likelyhood that a blind
person wouldn't simply be able to go up to a computer in an internet
cafae,
library or university and just plug in this external USB device. In-fact
I'm
even more surprised that someone in one of the three places that Sunil
tried
to use the freedom box didn't ask him what he thought he was up to. I
know
the program is very tite but something as fundamental as this, should
have
been pointed out. A lot of les technologically minded people are going
to
have the idea that they can simply take this device an dplug it
anywhere.
Despite the fact that most publicly available computers won't allow this
and
many won't even have USB ports.
Yusuf
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