[oats-sig] FireVox

Welcome back Andy and thanks for looking into the bots. Bad Behaviour

Sorry that came out rather confusing, FireVox works on Windows XP
http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/installation_winxp.html
I really meant we could add it to the list.

Steve

On 9/4/2006, "Steve Lee" <steve at fullmeasure.co.uk> wrote:

>Welcome back Andy and thanks for looking into the bots. Bad Behaviour
>works very well for schooloforge. I don't think there is a PLone
>version but it is FOSS PHP.
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>I did mention FoxySymbols to Aaron and it seems at this point he's more
>interested in general purpose AT that can also work with other programs
>like OOo rather than just FF extensions. Do you have any ideas how
>Foxysymbols could be expanded to be a more general 'screen reader'
>system, perhaps with SAW/GOK? How about as an add on to Orca if
>serialisation could work well for the userbase. I'll definitely be
>discussing Oatsoft at the hackfest.
>
>BTW CLC - FireVox looks pretty mature screen reader extension so perhaps
>a Windows port would be the best way forward as an alternative to
>FoxyVoice.
>
>Would someone like to put FireVox through its paces?
>http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/
>
>There may be short article on Mozilla in the next Ability if John accepts
>it.
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>Steve Lee
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>On 9/4/2006, "Andy Judson" <ajudson at computing.dundee.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>Hi all... i'm back at work, sorry about the server down time... we're
>>not sure on the exact problem, but we are seeing a lot of bot traffic
>>on it, it will be a while before i get chance to really sit down and
>>work on restricting the many bad bots.
>>
>>The mozilla article & particularly the grant idea seem particularly
>>interesting... it sounds like it would be worth submitting something
>>for it, partly to work on foxysymbols, but also to look at the
>>generic idea steve's suggested in the past. Steve, since your intouch
>>with the person at mozilla already is it possible/suitable for you to
>>have a quite word about the ideas we've all been discussing & trying
>>to develop.
>>
>>Andy.
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>>On 23 Aug 2006, at 15:25, mats.lundalv at vgregion.se wrote:
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>>> Thanks for a great blog Steve!
>>>
>>> This fits very well with Andy's and friends' FoxySymbols project
>>> plans, doesn't it?
>>>
>>> Mats
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mozilla are obviously very committed to the cause:
>>>
>>> http://elgg.net/stevelee/weblog/128002.html
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
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>>---
>>Dr. Andy Judson [Research Fellow]
>>School of Computing,
>>University of Dundee,
>>Dundee, DD1 4HN,Scotland.
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