Re: blind users

[Hans Spaans <cj.spaans@nexit.nl>]

On Tuesday 02 April 2002 15:36, Lumley Robert L wrote:
> hi, i'm working on a project in my spare time to make a zaurus pda
> talk for the blind, i have several questions.
>
> 1.  would all the qt apps on the zaurus work with your product?
>
> 2. would your product be source compliant in such a way that i could
> modify it to talk and make all the apps under it speak?
>
> 3. B.lind users are very demanding and will require much support so I
> want to charge for support or code or something to cover the amount
> of time i'll have to spend on this, what does the license allow for?
>
> thanks very much.
>
> robert lumley (a blind user who wants protabillity)

Dear Robert,

I'm sorry that we gave you any false hope with this April Fools joke. 
All the people behind this joke feel really bad about this situation. 
Nothing can repair what we have done, we know that. We had a chat about 
the situation and if have a link about your project for blind people or 
know a good link about what non-blind people should know about 
computing for blind people. This because we then place it as link of 
the week on the Dutch Portal for Linux-users and hope that we can show 
people what you're doing or what we should know about computing for 
blind people.

I hope you can accept this, because we where not thinking about this. 
And specially in a time that graphical user interfaces are placed on 
every place possible.

I can tell you one thing and that is that I not really was thinking 
about this situation until you sended your email. Your email made me 
think and hopefully also other people.

Kind regards,
Hans Spaans

-- 
"How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I 
only coded it."
    -- Linus Torvalds