[SLUG] Opinions wanted with accessibility issues.

[DAVID KNIGHT]

I've been speaking to David Dartnall-Smith at the Blind Centre about this subject and he mirrors my thoughts. David currently teaches computing skills to 96 blind and partially sighted students in Scarborough, the vast majority of whom are over 50. The main applications wanted are scanning with OCR/talking text (for reading newspaper, bills, correspondance, etc), basic word processing, E-mail and internet. He can give people free computers but he currently is forced to charge £400 for the software which many people can't afford. He says he's sold 30 copies of the software, leaving around 70 people struggling with current free options (basic XP screen magnification tools and simple text to speech software) in Scarborough alone. This is a big gap in the market that Linux could fill ;-)
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