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Re: Developing Software For Visually Impaired

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From: clive
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1987 00:23
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in article <1536@bunker.UUCP>, wtm@bunker.UUCP says:
> Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP
> 
> Index Number: 0072
> Written-by: Albert Melissen (FidoNet 340/20) 02/02/87
> 
> I am presently developing a talking computer for the blind which should see 
> the market be sept/oct this year, I am also developing the software that it 
> will contain.  The biult in software will contain a word processor as well as 
> a user friendly terminal program.  Since I am a sighted person, my knowledge 
> as to what is required and what is desirable in the way of features for these 
> programs is somewhat limited.
> Here is a short list of the features that they contain :
>   The word processor:
>        A Simulated full screen editor (voice of course)
>        Full text and voice driven cursor commands
>        Full word / line spell / read back commands
>        Much more than I would like to enter.
> 
>   The terminal program
>       Up and downloading
>       Built in auto dialler
>       And a system that will allow log on to "normal" BBS's and data       
> bases such as The Source.
> 
> Please if you have any suggestions or comments for this software or questions 
> about the computer of software please send me a message containing this.
> Please feel free to do so, I need all the feedback I can get.
> 
>                               Thanks in advance
>                                Albert Melissen
> 
>  * Origin:  1B Systems Management, Nanaimo, B.C. (604) 758-3072 (340/20)
> 
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Subject: Re: Developing Software For Visually Impaired
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Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 19:23:10 EST
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