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[Phillip Whiteside]

Hi,

I joined this mailing list via the ubuntu forum area. I write web sites and
was interested in how much more difficult it is to write the code so that it
complies with whatever standard is standard of the day (The wonderful thing
about standards, is everyone can make their own).

A bit of my background may be in order. When I was 20 years old I had
written a programme that could do what Stephen Hawkins still uses using an 8
bit computer (an Atari 640 XL with additional memory board soldered in).
There was no interest in me going forward with that for about 1/100th of the
cost of what was being sold commercially by any of charities.

My heart drops when the longest emails are about 'failed' projects, people's
ascertations that future projects are doomed to failure. As a non-disabled
person, can I please ask that the bickering of who / what / where / when is
to fault stop?

As has been pointed out on this thread, there are young programmers coming
on-line. This next bit of news may come of a shock to some of you, but they
do not actually care about a disability - it is such a 'non-event' to them -
They focus on the person, if that person is a happy person they see happy. I
that person is some what frustrated but articulate and realises that an able
bodied can never fully understand how it is to be so then progress can be
made. If their first contact is for a major doom and gloom assesment of how
they will fail like everyone else has done, it is hardly going to keep them
around for long?

VEDICS is nice, they have a little funding and would possibly be interested
in taking it forward, they are certainly not going to
1) be interested in so doing with such negativity
2) be able to get any funding based on 'testimonial' emails.

This is another young programmer who has written stuff

http://bloc.eurion.net/archives/2010/espeak-gui-0-2/
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