Re: [orca-list] Accessibility of Open/Libre Office VS MS Office (was Government payed assistive technologies)

[MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <texou actux eu org>]

Hi,

I share this dream. That's why we're preparing a crowdfunding campaign 
to submit to community before end 2015. We'll likely show it to Orca 
devs and community.

Regards,

Le 04/09/2015 23:00, B. Henry a écrit :
> Just a pipe dream, but cause I feel like sharing:
> If countries or groups of countries, the E.U., the U.N., or someone would spend just a relatively drop in the 
> bucket amount of money to keep a few teams
> of good idealistic programmers contributing to existing projects, and sometimes build something that is not 
> comercially all the practical from scratch,
> I reckon Libre-office could go over the top and be every bit as accessible as MS-office and fix most other 
> issues. Maybe a new and better FOS OCR engine
> could be developed, and little things like FOS cross ploatform daisy players could be knocked out.
>
> Yeah, I know that this can't happen in any short to medium term future in the U.S. for sure, and probably not 
> in a lot of countries as it'd be risking
> private sector jobs, but this is my dream, and one I'd finance on a smaller scale if I were every to win a 
> lottery.
> Perhaps countries adopting open document standards will have some notable impact on what consumers care about 
> and OEMs put on their machines.
> Just imagine if $2 from every laptop that Dell, Lenovo and HP sold went to the Open
> Document Foundation. I seriously think there should be a very small tax on computers and smartphones, (might 
> as well just call them computers with
> onboard 3 or 4g cards anyway), that goes toward universal digital accessability. To Apple's credit they kind 
> of do this, but of course it only helps
> apple devices/users, and only in the way that apple deems best.
> Such a tax could insure the continued growth and accellerated improvement  of NVDA, ORCA, Speakup, etc, and 
> integrate high quality OCR and the like in
> to more devices and for free.
> I'm all infavor of paying my fair share, but do think it a reasonable social stimulous, leveling of 
> proverbial playing fields, etc., to have the tools
> disabled people available at low cost or for free. This kind of program could help the world over, both 
> countries and regions where there is already gov
> assistance and training, and of course even more so for those who live places or in cirrcumstances where 
> there is no gov program for them.
>    xcuse the typos...


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