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Cppnews for the blind

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From: Nikki Locke - Cppnews newsreader...
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 00:00
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I have recently been having a long conversation with Steve Nutt, who uses 
cppnews with a screen-reading speech program. He is very enthusiastic 
about the program, but has pointed out a few drawbacks in the way the 
screen is updated, which sometimes foxes his speech program.

I am now considering putting a lot of effort into cppnews to make it more 
"speech friendly".

I now discover that there are at least two blind cppnews users, and I 
wonder if there are any more out there?

If there are, I would like to involve you all in our discussions of the 
best way to improve cppnews for blind users.

As this is, in theory, a public newsgroup (judging by the number of spams 
we get in here :-), I would also welcome contributions from any _potential_ 
users as well. If you know someone who isn't a cppnews user, but might 
want to be if it was more speech friendly, please ask them to join in.

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From: cppnews@trmphrst.demon.co.uk (Nikki Locke - Cppnews newsreader support)
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Date: 1996/09/11
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