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                            THE BLIND NEWS DIGEST

                                 Issue # 1162

                          Thursday, August 24, 1995

Today's Topics:


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                          X Windows Access (again)
                   Documentation on the Lynx text browser?
           Scanning Spanish text and importing it into WordPerfect
                    Help needed: Talking Books in Russian
                         Adaptive Computer Software
                                getting files
                          Re: Enchanted Hills Camp
                       Library for the Blind in Israel


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Subject: X Windows Access (again)
From: mgardner@intgp13.ih.att.com (-Gardner,M.W.)
Organization: AT&T

I'm not sure if this group is still being moderated, as I
haven't seen anything on it for at least 5 weeks, but here
goes anyway.

A subject that has come up several times on this group, and
to which I have still not found an answer, is can anyone
provide a list of providers of X Windows access for the
visually impaired?   I'm based in the U.K., but details
about companies around the world are always useful.

I ask this, as I am desperately trying to find a suitable
enlarging system for myself; while my company rapidly
plunges into the GUI mire.

I have only seen one specific X
product so far; sold by BEAM Ltd. in Yate.   It is an
enlarging X terminal, with up to 8 times magnification.
The terminal is called XVI and the company details are:

        BEAM Ltd
        Northavon Business Centre
        Dean Road
        Yate
        Bristol BS17 5NH

        Telephone: +44 (0)1454 324 512
        E-mail: beam.demon.co.uk!sales

I was given a contact name for the AccessX group in the US -
by the Computability Centre (in Warwick).   The name I was
given is Mark Novak, but I did not get any response via
e-mail.   The AccessX (or DACX) group would seem to be a
very good source of information, in theory, but I need
another address

Can anyone provide me with any other contacts?

BTW my most surprising response was when I phoned Sun; that
leading name in X windows environments; and they couldn't
help me internally, and just pointed me at the
Computability Centre (which used to be a department of
IBM).   That's put Sun well down in my esteem!
--
Malcolm
           Malcolm W. A. Gardner   \   AT&T Network Systems U.K. Ltd.
             m.w.a.gardner@att.com  )    Swindon Road, Malmesbury
           +44 (0) 1666 83 2052    /   Wiltshire, U.K. SN16 9NA




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Subject: Documentation on the Lynx text browser?
From: ratcliff@haven.ios.com (Vicki Ratcliffe)

I would like to receive any documentation on the Lynx text browser.  If
anyone has information, please contact me at ratcliff@haven.ios.com and
thank you.




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Subject: Scanning Spanish text and importing it into WordPerfect
From: patt@squid.tram.com (Patt Bromberger)

We are using Xerox Technology's Reading Edge with the Spanish Module to
read Spanish text; we'd like to import the Spanish text into WordPerfect;
is anyone aware of other soft/hardware we would need in order to be able
to do that?  Yes, the Reading Edge reads the Spanish aloud but we would
like to be able to import the Spanish text into WordPerfect so that a
blind student could take a Spanish exam and then print out the text to be
handed to the professor.

All comments, suggestions and leads appreciated.

Thanks.

Patricia Ann Bromberger        -          patt@squid.tram.com
President, Student Organization for Every Disability United for Progress @
The Mamie and Frank Goldstein Resource Center for Students with Disabilities
Brooklyn College/CUNY  (718) 252-9230     patt@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu



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Subject: Help needed: Talking Books in Russian
From: ed02@central.napier.ac.UK (Mike McDonagh)
Organization: University of Birmingham mail to news gateway




Can anyone give me sources for talking books (ie tape-recorded novels,
non-fiction, magazines, newspapers etc) in Russian please?

Sources can be loan or purchase, those in the UK would be of especial interest.

Thanks in anticipation.

Mike.






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Subject: Adaptive Computer Software
From: tmeade@infi.net (Medical Services 2001)
Organization: InfiNet


If you're visually impaired and would like the ability to browse a computer
software catalog at your leisure then ACS is for you.

Adaptive Computer Software contains many speach and software related
applications designed to help a handicapped person utilize a computer to
its fullest.

For a copy of ACS please email tmeade@infi.net with the subject "ACS".

--
Tony Meade     tmeade@infi.net
MEDICAL SERVICES 2001
Phone: (804)-471-5385  Fax: (804)-471-5663



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Subject: getting files
From: maurice@netaxs.com (Maurice Shackelford)
Organization: Philadelphia's Complete Internet Provider

Hello all,

Does any one know how I could get a copy of fax works 3.00 manual on
disk.  If so please contact me at the internet address that is contained
within this article.

Thanks Reese



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Subject: Re: Enchanted Hills Camp
From: jim@arken.arkenstone.org (Jim Fruchterman)


This camp is run by the Rose Resnick Lighthouse in San Francisco.
Their phone number is (415) 431-1481.  I've heard tons of great
feedback on it from Arkenstone employees (blind and sighted).

Jim Fruchterman                    jim@arkenstone.org
President                          Arkenstone, Inc.
1390 Borregas Avenue               1-800-444-4443
Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA            1-408-752-2200
"Information Access for Everyone!" Fax: 1-408-745-6739




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Subject: Library for the Blind in Israel
From: s.farwaneh@m.cc.utah.edu (s farwaneh)

Does anyone know the telephone number or e-mail address of the Library
for the Blind in Israel? I had the number once but I seem to have lost
it. I understand that they have available a braille Hebrew-English
dictionary which I need.
Also, does anyone know of sources of Hebrew materials here in the US?
Thanks for your help.
Samira Farwaneh



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