[gui-talk] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: monetary support

[Don H]

I took part in a leadership seminar in Baltimore when I was the president of 
a local chapter.  At that meeting Dr. Jernigan said he did not believe in 
gimmicks to help the cause.  Shortly there after the NFB became involved in 
the blind guy that was going to sail across the Atlantic was sponsored by 
the NFB.  Of course it was a failure and a gimmick
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Subject: Re: [gui-talk] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: monetary support


> So you are suggesting that it is more conducive to put money into some
> public relations gimmick that basically benefit one individual rather than
> doing something that would benefit thousands?  And the NGOs get into a
> staring match with rehab rather than step forward to do something.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Steve Jacobson
> Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 6:24 AM
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> Subject: [Bulk] Re: [gui-talk] [Bulk] Re: monetary support
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> One has to think about where one is going with support.  NVDA is
> interesting, but if one were going to put money into it what would be the
> desired result.  For one
> thing, if we and others are putting money into it, it really isn't free 
> any
> longer is it?  When would we stop putting money into it?  The fact is that
> technology is
> constantly changing and the perfect screen reader can therefore never be
> built.  To keep a screen reader up to date even once it works well is 
> going
> to take an on-
> going stream of money, and a good free screen reader supported by the NFB
> and others simply leaves the rehabilitation agency and employers off the
> hook for
> providing some of the support for accessibility we need.  If we have a
> specific thing we'd like to see happen with NVDA or other open source 
> screen
> reader, such as
> seeing if a particular approach to a problem is workable, then putting 
> some
> money toward making that happen as a proof of concept for example would 
> make
> sense
> to me.
>
> On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:12:55 -0700, tunecollector wrote:
>
>>Really?  Didn't NFB pay for a blind guy to climb Mount Everest?
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>>Behalf Of Mike Freeman
>>Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 7:44 PM
>>To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
>>Subject: [Bulk] Re: [gui-talk] monetary support
>
>>NFB has traditionally not favored any screen-reading software package
>>over any other. Also, there's only so much money to go around.
>
>>Mike
>
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Hoffman, Allen" <Allen.Hoffman at dhs.gov>
>>To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 6:38 AM
>>Subject: [gui-talk] monetary support
>
>
>>does anyone know if ACB, AFB, or NFB has provided any monetary support
>>to the NVDA project to date?  If not, why not?  If so, how much and who
>>can we thank?
>
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