Barbara McNay wrote to James Bradley, "'Nother One" on 07-02-05 17:14

 >>  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.)

 >  BM> Yes.  I believe we're talking about the same person.  He
 >  BM> has moved to different digs, but his phone number is the
 >  BM> same. May I give him your name and number? Email address?

 > Somehow, I doubt it is the same guy. But stranger
 > things have > happened.

 > If you have "NETMAIL", or "MATRIX" access, we can

 BM> I have netmail, all right, and I received yours.  However,
 BM> I can't seem to route netmail out.

I think we can get all the expertise out here anyway. You know, one
post to a local sysop, and he'll have to start feeding the guy/gal
until he is wired up, right? Even if your fella does log in via I-Net,
as long as there's a wealth of knowledge locally, that will save us
oodles of typing time. 

 > posted your quest on an echo called BLUEWAVE for more
 > voice synthesizer. My sysop *just* wired up an
 > emailnetmail 'gateway' so I should have e-mail access there.

 >> QUESTIONS:

 >> I-net access or dial-up?
 >> Voice playback, or Braille?


 >> 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

 >> He said it worked GREAT, and rarely mispronounced

 >> If we know what kind of equipment he has, and where

 >  BM> I've no idea what he has, except he does have I-net access.

 > That will likely be the route to go. I would like to
 > go further
 > outside this echo though. I have never run TELNET
 > other than locally,
 > so unless you have experience there, we should maybe
 > spill over to - I
 > don't know - TECH, or ELECTRONICS?

 >  BM> Let me know, or if you find his number, give him a call
 >  BM> yourself.  I don't want to give out his info here, as I


 >  BM> mail to bmcnay{at}bigfoot.com, and I will forward it.

I will try to contact you there from this board. It might skip my mind
though, and it's pretty convoluted for me to use it, but it'll give us
a direct route to communications.

 > LORD no! Why do you think my guy is called Mr. Brown?


 BM> Did, as I said.  I'll do some more looking and
 BM> experimenting to see why Irex won't pick it up.

Like I say, if we can find someone that is about to run an errand in
his neighbourhood, we're done. If we can get the our two guys to talk
together, we're done. Even if we forward this to another echo we are
expanding our expertise.

He has little else to do, than what we are doing now, plus his
input/output methods. He'll login, or point. I-net or dialup. IExporer
(Don't ask me!) or text reader.... We have more questions than we have
experts at this time, but this should give us a good start.

I would have to cold call eleven numbers here to contact
Mr. Brown, (His name is *actually* Brown!) should he still be with us,
AND posted in the book. If your assistant can start talking with us
here, or in TECH, we've shortened the root immensely. Can you get to
him, to set up 'his and her' accounts?

I'll just bet you can set up accounts for them remotely, right? Just
inform them of their login names, and a generic simple password,
streamline his input/output, and we're done.   

So, I can see a sysop near him being the best possible route.
Next, if your guy, and my guy talk on-on-one.
If your guys' assistant can work a BBS in his area, or one that
operates in I-net, we can start typing to her directly.

Any other ideas?

... James
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