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

[albert griffith]

I believe it's being funded in the best way possible.  The parent company
has deep pockets and if it's going to work out they'll bring it on line like
they have their browser.

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of tunecollector
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 11:27 AM
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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

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
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>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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