[gui-talk] Which companies shoud I contact?

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what type of company do you want to work with? Freedom Scientific and GW 
Micro produce the jaws and window eyes screen readers. There are also 
scan-and-read programs K1000 and OpenBook that have the ability to do OCR on 
pdf and other documents scanned from a printed page and then read the text.
What is it you want to accomplish? What a laugh it would be if you got 
rejected by all the current big wigs and started your own company and it 
took off.
I am a computer science grad and therefore am interested in the approach you 
take.  Aren't you the same person who posted once before with a way of 
marking up pdf documents?
Sounds like your system purports to solve all the world's problems, which 
may or may not be possible--which seems likely as the problems have  been 
worked on for decades and no one else has a simple solution.
If you got together with an access company, perhaps you could see some of 
the problems they are dealing with.
--le


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Pepper" <b75205 at gmail.com>
To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 9:27 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] Which companies shoud I contact?


I am James Pepper and I have been coming into this list for a while and I
developed a means of making PDF documents, forms and interactive content
accessible to the blind, the visually impaired and everyone else.  It works
with the default settings of Adobe Reader and it was tested by AFB Tech, the
technology division of the American Foundation for the Blind and they called
it a "Raising the Floor" technology.  So I wanted to see who here knows of
which companies I should approach to try to get this out there on the
market.

It is a means of making the graphic user interface accessible to the blind
so I thought this was the perfect place to ask this question.
My format enables simple text to speech engines to work as effectively as
JAWS or Window Eyes in reading PDF documents where all of the content can be
read and you can interact with the document,  My format works with JAWS,
Window Eyes and Zoom Text and is backwards compatible, so that the blind do
not have to buy new programs to read and interact with content, they can use
their existing screen readers. I used JAWS 8 to test it.  I thought that
since most people cannot afford these programs that it would be of help.

I was blind, I had progressively worsening tunnel vision in High School and
College and then one day most of it came back.  So I looked at the software
that people use to make content accessible to the blind and I fixed it, so
it actually works.  Practical accessibility where you can actually read and
interact with all of the content.

Last year, I made the National Voter Registration form to be accessible to
the blind using conventional techniques, not my new process, and this form
was tested by the Jernigan Institute of the National Federation of the
Blind, by AFB Tech, and Jim Dickson the Vice President of the American
Association of People with Disabilities presented these forms to the
Elections Assistance Commission which is in charge of accessible voting in
the US.  But of course they decided to use the forms made by their
webmaster.

I can do this in multiple languages including Spanish and the languages used
in DAISY format all over the world.

So I was wanting to know which Accessible Technology companies should I
approach?

Sincerely,

James G. Pepper
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