> 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.)

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


 > 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.

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

Let me know, or if you find his number, give him a call yourself.  I don't
want to give out his info here, as I didn't think to ask him if it was OK. 
If you wish, you can send email to bmcnay{at}bigfoot.com, and I will forward
it.

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