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[oats-sig] FireVox

Steve Lee steve at fullmeasure.co.uk
Thu Sep 7 20:19:48 BST 2006

Article: [oats-sig] FireVox

That's probably worth asking on the Moz a11y list. I see you recently 
mentioned peepo there.

Steve

Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
> How does one ininstall firevox? I've found it impossible to reliably 
> turn it off in win'98 and this has become very irritating for other users.
> 
> wrote to charles, no reply as yet
> Jonathan Chetwynd
> 
> 
> 
> On 4 Sep 2006, at 14:11, Steve Lee wrote:
> 
> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Steve Lee
>>
>> On 9/4/2006, "Andy Judson" <ajudson at computing.dundee.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> On 23 Aug 2006, at 15:25, mats.lundalv at vgregion.se wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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