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From: David.Andrews@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (David Andrews)
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Subject: Re: Graphical user interfacing
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Date: 31 Oct 90 03:04:35 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

To alistair@minster.york.ac.uk (Alistair Edwards) 
       
 AE> I am sorry to perhaps be depressing, but I am not so optimistic  
 AE> - and I think I am in a good position to know; this has been  
 AE> the main topic of my research for the past five years. The  
 AE> reason that 'an accessible version of XWINDOWS' - or any (most)  
 AE> other graphical user interfaces (GUIs) has not been developed  
 AE> is that it is a VERY hard problem. Many people are aware of it,  
 AE> few people have any idea how to solve it and even fewer are  
 AE> working on it. Berkeley Systems Inc have made a valiant try to  
 AE> adapt the Macintosh and IBM are working along very similar  
 AE> lines at the moment - oh, yes and I and some colleagues are  
 AE> addressing it too, but we are all a long way from a practical  
 AE> solution - and it will take MUCH more than $50,000. I already  
 AE> have a research grant of around $100,000 and my work will only  
 AE> scratch the surface. 
  
At the recent Closing the Gap conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, IBM
announced that it would be releasing the information necessary for speech
developers to access their OS/2 Presentation Manager.  They also indicated that
they might be interested in working with others indeveloping standard ways to
access it and windows via speech for all to use.
David Andrews

... Your Sound Alternative

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