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                            THE BLIND NEWS DIGEST

                                 Issue # 1157

                           Friday, August 11, 1995

Today's Topics:


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                            Project questionaire
                        Re: Blind News Digest # 1155
                            browsing the internet
                    Audio Description Conference--Summary
                           Blind List of Text file
                        New telnetable bbs (gbx.org)


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Subject: Project questionaire
From: mit1sh@dmu.ac.uk (S Hutchinson)

Dear Sir / Madame,
I wondered if you would be kind enough to fill this questionaire in, it would
be a great help and then just e-mail it back to me. Also if you know of anyone
else who would fill it in for me could you send it on.
Thanks again for the help
Yours faithfully
Simon Hutchinson




Simon Hutchinson           Torch Trust for the blind
57 Mountcastle Road        Torch House
Leicester                  Hallaton
LE3 2BW                    Near Market Harborough
e-mail mit1sh@dmu.ac.uk    Leicestershire
                           England

Assessing the needs of blind and visually impaired computer users.

This is a questionnaire to try and discover the needs and problems blind
and visually impaired people have when using computers. The results are
to be used as part of my MSc project which I am working on in conjunction
with the Torch trust for the blind based at hallaton, near Leicester, in the
 U.K.
in assessing I.T. for the blind. I have been researching access technology
for the blind and visually impaired, specifically in the area of accessing
the internet. From my research I hope to produce technical manuals to assist
blind and visually impaired people in getting connected to the internet and
actually navigating through the internet for the first time, using adaptive
technology.
When completed could you please e-mail it to: mit1sh@dmu.ac.uk
If you have any comments to make about the questionaire or project please feel
free to let me know.
Many thanks for your cooperation,
Simon Hutchinson

Please delete where necessary

What type of computer user are you ?
        1) Professional                 Yes / No
        2) Academic                     Yes / No
        3) Student                      Yes / No
        4) Other                        Yes / No       If yes please specify:


What access technology do you use ?
        5) Screen magnification         Yes / No
        6) Screen reading               Yes / No
        7) Speech synthesiser           Yes / No
        8) Braille Display              Yes / No
        9) Other                        Yes / No         Please specify:




10) What applications do you find work well with your access technology ?




11) Do you find screen navigation a problem when using certain packages
        Yes / No        If yes please specify:




12) Have you used a Graphical User Interface ?        Yes / No



13) If you have used a GUI did you have problems with it ?
              Yes / No        If yes please specify:




14) If you have not yet used one yet,do you expect to have to use one
in the near future?        Yes / No





15) Do you have access to the Internet?        Yes / No




16) When first trying to access the Internet did you find the manuals
    to be useful ?        Yes / No




17) If you have your own connection did you have sufficient information on the
    necessary Hardware / software requirements to set up a connection ?
        Yes / No




18) Do you have any specific problems when trying to use the Internet ?







19) What has been your greatest difficulty in accessing information technology
                 in the last 5 years ?
    over the last five years ?







Thankyou for all your help.



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Subject: Re: Blind News Digest # 1155
From: eikeim@lilac.nhsl.lib.nh.us (EILEEN KEIM)

Stan Sadowsky might contact his local sales reps for the various CCTV
companies.  People do trade up, or give up, or just decide they don't
want the device any longer.  There's nothing predictable about it, but
in my experience the sales reps will all do their level best to help.
Eileen Keim, NH



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Subject: browsing the internet
From: dashiell@nadc.nadc.navy.mil (J. Dashiell)

two tools come to mind.
First the older of the two gopher.
second lynx.
Both will require a home page be constructed for your users
and your site will have to get itself registered so you can
have access to the world wide web and gopher space.
gopher has a couple tools one called veronica that a user
can use for searching and there's another called
jughead.  Your users should subscribe themselves to
the tourbus list since this list is
teaching people how to browse the internet by
correspondence course and the price is $0.00
for the course.
the tourbus list is located at:
majordomo@colossus.net.  A command of
subscribe tourbus in the body of the email gets it done,
and leave the subject line blank and don't put a
signature on the message either.
hth.

jude <dashiell@nadc.nadc.navy.mil>



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Subject: Audio Description Conference--Summary
From: jsnyder@tmn.com (Joel Snyder)

August 5, 1995


TO:         All Interested in Audio Description

FROM:       Joel Snyder, Assistant Director, Presenting
National Endowment for the Arts

SUBJ:       Document Summary -- First International Conference on
Audio Description


Thank you for having expressed an interest in learning more about Audio
Description and, in particular, the issues discussed at the First
International Conference on Audio Description held in Washington, DC, June 15-
17, 1995.

Attached to this cover note is a document summary of the conference sessions.
It is a lengthy document--123K, 41 pages--but I hope that you will find it of
interest.

I welcome your comments--you may share them with me by e-mail at
<jsnyder@tmn.com> , by phone at 202 682-5591, or by "snail mail" at:

Presenting Program
National Endowment for the Arts
Nancy Hanks Center
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, #703
Washington, DC  20506





JS/pc
wpdocs/adcon3a


THE JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
In Cooperation with the National Endowment for the Arts
and the Association for Theatre and Disability
PRESENTS

THE FIRST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUDIO
DESCRIPTION

" ... the visual made aural ... "

[Note from Bill McGarry: This article was over 120K long.  It
was posted in the misc.handicap newsgroup but due to its size,
I removed the rest of the article.  The entire article is available
via WWW at
http://www.tmn.com/Artswire/www/ad/home.html




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Subject: Blind List of Text file
From: shaffer@bga.com (Jim Shaffer)
Organization: Real/Time Communications - Bob Gustwick and Associates

I've made Phil Scovell's blind text library, blt, files accessable
from my new home page at http://www.realtime.net/~shaffer/
You can even click on the hotlinks mentioned in the text files.

I added the NFB's press release on their newsline service they're
starting.  We're establishing one here in Texas.  It's under
"electronic newspapers" in the list.  It's long so I won't post it.

I should probably add that I'll be on vacation, most likely without
web access, for a couple of weeks, returning on 08/12, so if you send
mail please be patient.

Enjoy
--
Jim Shaffer
Austin, TX
email:  shaffer@bga.com
home page:  http://www.realtime.net/~shaffer/



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Subject: New telnetable bbs (gbx.org)
From: dlangley@web1.calweb.com (Doug Langley)
Organization: calweb

This is a cross post of a message originally posted in the fidonet area
blinktalk announcing the first ever bbs for the blind on the internet.  I
suggest you check it out if you have any interest in blindness.




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Date: Sunday, July 2, 1995  5:31pm                                 /blnktlk
from: Dan Kysor                                                 Msg#: 72798
  To: ** ALL **
  Re: GBX.ORG

We are proud to announce GBX.ORG: The Global Blind Exchange
Formally "CCB NET" is NOW on the INTERNET!  The world's
first BBS run by and for blind people!  We have not completed our
re-modeling or completed adding features but
we would like to have folks help us test.  We'll be fully
completed with our system August 1 or 15.  Most name serves around
the world already have or address as GBX.ORG but if not,
try our IP address: 165.90.138.192
Any experts on Telnet and Rlogin are urged to assist us in helping others
with
file transfers.
Currently, we have had great luck with Rlogin since it seems to have
the 8 bit protocols.  We are still testing the system
and there will be times that it will be down but for the most
part, we're up and running!
Dan





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