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From: Denis Boudreau
Date: Oct 5, 2010 10:12PM

Hi Everett,

On 2010-10-05, at 11:47 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote:

> Better yet. Why not send those subsidies to opensource AT developers so that people around the world can have Free access to quality assistive technology?

This is exactly what I thought. It's hard to upgrade and maintain some of the tools made available like Jaws, but others are free and are becoming increasingly usable as versions come out. Yes, I'm pointing at you NVDA! <grin>

That being said, I work closely with people who have visual disabilities and as it turns out, most of them are reluctant to go from Jaws to NVDA because old habits die hard.

/Denis