IBM Screen Reader and IBM Composite Magnifier

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

Jason Grieves wrote:
> Hi Team,
>
> Sorry I have been out of the loop for the past couple of months.  Computer
> Engineering Degree took up all of my time.  I will be working a lot more
> this summer with the team.
>
> I wanted to share some projects with the team I think we need to start
> looking into.  I plan on working on the first.  The MCM used for composite
> magnification.  Second, the LSR, Linux Screen Reader, looks to be very
> promising...Scriptable and lightweight.  Think it might challenge Orca?
>
> http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/mcm
>
> http://live.gnome.org/LSR
>   

Hi Jason!

Nice to see you on the list again. Now that the dapper release madness 
is over I look forward to being more active here as well.

I don't know about the LSR, Orca seems to have a good team behind it and 
be developing quickly. With several of our community members using it 
and the Gnopernicus team now supporting it, it looks like we should put 
our weight behind that as well.

The IBM MCM magnifier looks very interesting though. I had to register 
on the site to get more information, but it then turns out that it's 
LGPL, so that's very cool! I've just mentioned it for Sven who is doing 
the SoC project on this, and I expect we'll contact the author (George 
Kraft) shortly to see how we can work together on this.

- Henrik