Rushabh Doshi

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Accessible Email Client and Text Reader for
People with Disabilites

• Rushabh Doshi

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Project Objectives

• Customizability
• Speech
• Should support SMTP and IMAP

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Visual what?

• Visual Basic
• Easy to code, easy to learn
• Visual C
• Aarrgghh
• Java (Not VJ)
• Way cool!
• Platform independence

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Visual Basic?

• Apparently a good choice
• IMAP control available
• IMAP control causes GPF every three minutes
• Company accepts the bug, refuses to correct it,
  refuses to give us source
• Microsoft SAPI 5.0 beta does not seem to work
  with VB 6

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Java?

• Seems like a great choice.
• Javax.mail API provides direct access to IMAP
  stuff
• Festival Project - CMU and University of
  Edinburgh
• Completely free!
• blah blah blah blah
• 4 minutes and 120 Mb of memory

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Back to square 0?

• Back to Visual Basic
• New IMAP controls available
• Being tested, preliminary results are pretty
  good.
• Microsoft SAPI 4 works

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Conclusion

• Demo
• Completely new schedule
• Finally stopped running around in circles