Welcome back Andy and thanks for looking into the bots. Bad Behaviour
works very well for schooloforge. I don't think there is a PLone
version but it is FOSS PHP.

I did mention FoxySymbols to Aaron and it seems at this point he's more
interested in general purpose AT that can also work with other programs
like OOo rather than just FF extensions. Do you have any ideas how
Foxysymbols could be expanded to be a more general 'screen reader'
system, perhaps with SAW/GOK? How about as an add on to Orca if
serialisation could work well for the userbase. I'll definitely be
discussing Oatsoft at the hackfest.

BTW CLC - FireVox looks pretty mature screen reader extension so perhaps
a Windows port would be the best way forward as an alternative to
FoxyVoice.

Would someone like to put FireVox through its paces?
http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/

There may be short article on Mozilla in the next Ability if John accepts
it.

Steve Lee

On 9/4/2006, "Andy Judson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Hi all... i'm back at work, sorry about the server down time... we're
>not sure on the exact problem, but we are seeing a lot of bot traffic
>on it, it will be a while before i get chance to really sit down and
>work on restricting the many bad bots.
>
>The mozilla article & particularly the grant idea seem particularly
>interesting... it sounds like it would be worth submitting something
>for it, partly to work on foxysymbols, but also to look at the
>generic idea steve's suggested in the past. Steve, since your intouch
>with the person at mozilla already is it possible/suitable for you to
>have a quite word about the ideas we've all been discussing & trying
>to develop.
>
>Andy.
>
>On 23 Aug 2006, at 15:25, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>> Thanks for a great blog Steve!
>>
>> This fits very well with Andy's and friends' FoxySymbols project
>> plans, doesn't it?
>>
>> Mats
>>
>>
>>
>> Mozilla are obviously very committed to the cause:
>>
>> http://elgg.net/stevelee/weblog/128002.html
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>
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