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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Mar 24, 2011 4:54AM

Personally, I dislike BrowseAloud's business model. The plugin works
potentially with every site, but as a client you need to pay them to get
added to an explicit whitelist of URLs that unlocks its functionality.
They've been offering discounts/free accounts to government and
education for a while, to drum up apparent adoption.
(oh, and the fact that, back in the days, there were incidents of
obvious astroturfing campaigns like
http://www.accessifyforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=22009 doesn't fill me with
confidence either).

Users that need speech are far better served with having something
running on their machine that works on all sites, not just on select
ones that paid to get BA to run there.

IMHO, of course,

P
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Patrick H. Lauke