BDIXON@IRLEARN.BITNET (Brendan Dixon) (10/31/90)
Index Number: 11433 [This is from the BLIND-L mailing list] Hi I am Brendan I work in the Computer Services of University College, Dublin and we are just starting to built up our knowledge and our services for the disabled. The most obvious area for us we believe is to enhance our computers for the blind and partially sighted sighted. To this end we have got ZoomText for the PC which works ok when connected to the mainframe machines over kermit but has some problems when used over a Novell network. We are also using Artic's Symphonix Business Vision voice synthesizer. We need a good wordprocessor to work with these as we feel that Microsoft Word is not ideal for these. Any ideas? Is anybody going to the Conference on Computers for the Disabled in Zurich in December? Regards Brendan
CUTWAYS@QUCDN.BITNET (Steve Cutway) (11/05/90)
Index Number: 11497 [This is from the BLIND-L mailing list] *** Reply to note of 10/27/90 03:00 Hello Brendan: I too will add my voice to Bob Lambert's for WordPerfect Version 5.0, and DBASE III. You'll find that Lotus 123 works well. WordPerfect Version 5.0 also should work well with ZoomText. Other large print programs worth evaluating are Lion Large Print from Computer Discourse, 1009 Kinlock Lane, North Vancouver, B.C. V7G 1V8 Canada Phone Canada (604) 929-8886; and Vista from Telesensory, P.O. Box 7455, Mountain View, California 94039-7455 U.S.A. Phone United States (415) 960-0920. Are you doing any Braille production there? We're using a Romeo RB-40 Braille printer which works very well. For large jobs, however, I would recommend the Thiel from Germany. Steve Cutway Coordinator of Information Access Technology Computing and Communications Services Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 PHONE: (613) 545-6354 EMAIL: CUTWAYS@QUCDN.QueensU.CA
ZIPPY@SJUVM.BITNET (Dr Benavraham) (11/05/90)
Index Number: 11501 [This is from the BLIND-L mailing list] Write to Peter Brooks for a shareware program called MAGHERC. $35 registration. It makes large print screen access for IBM compat screens with Hercules graphics cards. I think you will like it. Also it can be adapted.. NOT FOR COLOR MONITERS.... ONLY MONOCHROME. Peter Brooks is at Micromind 417 W 120 street NY NY 10027. 1 212 222 2849. He is a magnificent person and professor of computer science at Columbia.