A note on the new screen reader/2 for OS/2

A major recent event for the SIG was ASSETS'94, the First International ACM/SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies, which was held at the Doubletree Hotel in Marina del Rey (Los Angeles), California, on October 31 and November 1 of 1994. A total of 60 attendees (51 flom the United States, 3 each li'om England and Japan, and 1 each from Switzerland, Germany and Greece) gathered to hear 22 papers on the latest research intended to help people with a variety of disabilities. Randy Dipner, CEO of Meeting the Challenge Inc. and current Vice President of ACM, gave the keynote talk. Because the organizing committee was extremely frugal in its expenditures, attendees were able to enjoy top--quality meals as an integral part of the program for a registration fee just slightly more than that charged by other conferences which do not provide a similar benefit. The bottom line for ASSETS'94 was a net loss of just under $2,000, which I view as quite satisfactory under the circumstances.