September Fundathon total

At the end of the first, rather successful September fundathon, donations for NVDA totalled AU$590.00 (Around US$570.00 at time of writing). We would like to very much thank all who donated. As I mentioned in a previous post, we have decided to put these donations this time towards a specific project, which is to start implementing support for multitouch devices in NVDA. We had first planned to purchase a tablet PC, however it now seems that probably just a stand-alone multitouch monitor would be useful enough to start testing. We have some ideas on brands and models, and we will post more info once we have the new toy and start researching / implementing multitouch support in NVDA.

  • Posted: 2010-10-01 04:02 (Updated: 2010-10-01 04:03)
  • Author: mdcurran
  • Categories: GeneralNews

Comments

1. jschmude -- 2010-10-03 17:37

Awesome, I'm really looking forward to that. What with even some netbooks having multitouch screens in them now, it's getting more and more common. Having it in NVDA first would be really cool.

2. Ravager -- 2011-01-08 00:50

I am glad to hear that someone else will be working on tablet access for the visually impaired and blind. It is great to have a fully functionable Windows screen reader that doesn't cost an arm and a leg (no names to be mentioned). Only one correction though. NVDA won't be the first for a fully accessible tablet as Apple has the iPod, iPad, and iPhone which are all completely accessible without having to pay extra. I can't wait for someone to give people another, more affordable option for those that don't want to go with Apple though.