Barbara McNay wrote to James Bradley, "'Nother One" on 07-01-05 14:34

 > 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.)

 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 start there. I
posted your quest on an echo called BLUEWAVE for more heads on the
voice synthesizer. My sysop *just* wired up an emailnetmail
'gateway' so I should have e-mail access there. Let me know if you
don't get a forward to this, then we can test if we have
communications elsewhere.

 > 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.

 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> didn't think to ask him if it was OK.  If you wish, you can
 BM> send email to bmcnay{at}bigfoot.com, and I will forward it.


LORD no! Why do you think my guy is called Mr. Brown? ("Meet Mr. Pink,
Mr. WHite...") I just witnessed a person publish a credit report and
Social Security Number on a newsgroup out of spite. VERY ugly!!!

OK, we'll hopefully see you on netmail. Let me know if you get my
blank forwarded copy of this.



... James
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