Given the success of some very popular Cloanto professional and consumer software products, relatively few people know that the first product published by Cloanto back in 1987 was a communications package for the blind and the physically handicapped.
HTX, as this first package was named, probably was 10 years ahead of its time in many fields, providing a speech-assisted user interface and text editor, and a variety of easily reconfigurable input methods. This software was especially appreciated for its flexibility, ease of use, and consideration for extreme challenges (for example, imagine a blind person, unable to speak, with limited control over a single finger). An exceptional price/performance ratio was made possible by designing this inexpensive piece of software for a computer similarly innovative: the Amiga. The software is still in use by most of its original users, and continues to be available at no cost from Cloanto as well as from charitable institutions.
Today we have more experience, a better technology to stretch to new limits, and the same passion for software that has an intense and positive impact on people's lives. We also have a tradition of discretion about projects in progress. Therefore, the information we can make available at this point about ongoing developments is limited. We would however appreciate any suggestions, feedback and inquiries which you may want to address to us.