Barbara McNay wrote to All, "'Nother One" on 06-29-05 21:09

 BM> There is a man who participated in ABLED before, who is
 BM> interested in doing so again, if he can figure out how.  He
 BM> is blind, has a screen reader, and infrequent help from a
 BM> knowledgeable sighted person.  I believe he has had to get
 BM> a new computer since ABLED's heyday, so he will likely have
 BM> to set up all over again.  He does have email.  Does
 BM> anybody have any ideas?

Gee... We had a blind diabetic participate locally, but that too was
in fido's hay-day. If you turn up nothing, I *might* be able to dig up
his number. (Talked over the phone twice.)


QUESTIONS:

I-net access or dial-up?

Voice playback, or Braille?


Shoot... That's all I can ask at this time?
 

Mr. Brown, with a script and a modem, would call a BBS, and used an
OLMR called Blue Wave, which allows any page of text to be 
synthesized into a robotic voice. (Male or Female!) It was a tack-on
program he used, and I KNOW I have a copy of it on a hard drive,
unless it went down to a hard drive failure.

He said it worked GREAT, and rarely mispronounced words. We laughed
about how some of the proper names would come out, but I suspect that
is still a problem to this day.

If we know what kind of equipment he has, and where he'd like to
get to, I guess we can start working on the rest.



... James
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