Blind News Digest # 1165
Bill McGarry
Issue # 1165
Monday, September 18, 1995
Today's Topics:
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TMT Tutorials
Trying to contact ken...@cba002.isenshu-u.ac.jp
The Commo Mailing List/Listserv is back
Some Advice Please--A Reply
Adaptive Computer Software Catalog
Freelance Jobs
GUI design guidelines?
W3 access for the blind
Re: X Windows Access (again)
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Subject: TMT Tutorials
From: phil...@netcom.com (Phil Scovell)
If you prefer not to receive such information, please let me know
and I will remove your name from the email list.
For over a year I have received weekly calls from people
wanting to know if I had a Word perfect 5.1 tutorial. My answer
was, "No, but I do have a Word Perfect 6.0 set of tapes." Well,
now I have both. Talk-Me-Thru tutorials presents Word Perfect 5.1
Plus. Of course, Word Perfect 5.0 and 5.1 users will benefit from
this tutorial because these three versions are nearly identical.
The major difference is the addition of the WP 5.1 Plus fax
software.
The 4-tape series begins with a step-by-step demonstration of
the program's installation. The help system is adequately
explored to insure the blind user can learn independent of sighted
assistance. The setup system is also explained and demonstrated
in order to confirm future program customization. Creating,
editing and saving simple documents comes next. Two lessons are
devoted to simple macro definition and advanced macro application.
A great deal of time is spent on the list files mode, or file
manager of WP 5.1 Plus, in order to assist the user in file and
directory management. Commands such as copy, move delete and file
rename, text search within a directory and file sort, as well as
changing and creating new directories are all demonstrated.
Printing documents and print options is also explored. Advanced
editing features such as text delete and undelete, blocking
commands, appending text, formatting a document, underlining and
centering text, justification, setting margins, changing fonts,
displaying more than one window of text on screen at a time and
switching between windows is all explored and demonstrated. Of
course, the effectiveness of the Word Perfect spell checker and
thesaurus are also illustrated in this tutorial. File merge, form
letters, database application and text sort are explained and
illustrated in detail. The tutorial concludes with installation
of the fax software and a live demonstration of how a fax is
sent. For those interested in expanded Word Perfect 5.1
application, an advanced set of 2-tapes is planned.
Normally a 4-tape set of TMT tutorials sells for 50 dollars
but until September the first, you can purchase it for just 45
dollars. All TMT dealers will be able to purchase the tutorial at
a substantial discount so they will be able to pass this 10
percent discount on to their customers as well. TMT also excepts
Master Card and Visa purchases as do many TMT distributors. The
latest TMT catalog is 2.07 and is available in ascii format on
diskette, in Braille, or as a talking cassette catalog. call toll
free or contact me via the internet. I can even email the catalog
to you via the internet or netmail it to your favorite bulletin
board. The catalog is also available ftp by connecting to
ftp.netcom.com and logging in as anonymous. Then use your complete
email address as your password. Change directories by typing
cd /pub/ph/philscov and the file list will display. tmt207.zip is the
current filename.
Phil Scovell
1-800-484-9586 Extension 9579
303-936-2188 tech support Denver number
Internet: phil...@netcom.com
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Subject: Trying to contact ken...@cba002.isenshu-u.ac.jp
From: G6...@soft255.demon.co.uk ("J. P. Gilliver")
> From: ken...@cba002.isenshu-u.ac.jp
[]
I tried to write to this person, but I got a message from cba002.isenshu-u.ac.jp
(which suggests that part is correct) saying kenichi didn't exist. Have I missed
something?
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J. P. Gilliver (John); also G6JPG @ GB7NNA on the amateur radio packet network.
`Ergonomic' =/= `dext-handed'. (john.g...@gmrc.gecm.com at work.)
The summit of Everest is marine limestone.
I hope you dream a pig.
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Subject: The Commo Mailing List/Listserv is back
From: Jmed...@cris.com (JOM)
Organization: Concentric Internet Services
[This is included here since Commo is a very speech
friendly communications program.]
COMMO MAILING LIST
Commo, is a highly-efficient, small, and flexible DOS-based
communications program written by Fred Brucker of New Standard Software.
With a growing number of users on the Internet, a mailing list was
created to facilitate for discussion of the program, announcements of
new releases, and information about macros and utilities written by users.
The list is not moderated.
To subscribe, send the following in the message body to
list...@server.nlbbs.com
add commo
If you have questions, write jmed...@cris.com.
Please note that this list is not run by the author of Commo and is
completely independent of it.
I hope this list is a valuable resource to novice and advanced Commo users.
Thank you.
J.J. Meddaugh - jmed...@cris.com
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Ask about the Commo Mailing list and J.J. Meddaugh, Email: jmed...@cris.com
Commo Music Player. Michi-Web: http://www.cris.com/~jmeddaug
uthor of the TC BBS List for Mid-Mich. Tell the networks you want game shows!
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Subject: Some Advice Please--A Reply
From: ncr...@access.digex.net (Nolan Crabb)
I'm a little behind in the e-mail, so forgive me if this has been
addressed in a version of the Digest I have yet to read. Your friend can
easily search for a [hpg] command in her documents in WordPerfect 5.1.
Determining where page breaks are is quite simple with the search command.
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Subject: Adaptive Computer Software Catalog
From: tme...@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 tme...@infi.net with the subject "ACS".
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Tony Meade tme...@infi.net
MEDICAL SERVICES 2001
Phone: (804)-471-5385 Fax: (804)-471-5663
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Subject: Freelance Jobs
From: rowla...@aol.com (Rowland999)
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
Hi,
I'm new online and am visually impaired. If any of you are in the creative
communications field and operate on an independent (freelance) basis, you
might be interested in a free online way to advertise your skills and find
new clients.
If you are a freelance writer, photographer, graphic designers, DTP,
illustrator, multimedia specialist, composer, art director, video/audio
producer, PR consultant, print/radio/TV ad copywriter, check out:
That's the home page of OASYS Network, Inc., which offers completely FREE
electronic advertising space to freelancers for display of credentials and
graphic images of work. You can download an entry file from the Web site
and can update or change your "ad" at any time.
OASYS Network, Ind. sells this serviceworldwide (at a very low annual fee)
to companies that hire freelancers. Companies and supply firms interested
in OASYS can also find out about this online network from its Web site.
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Subject: GUI design guidelines?
From: PBO...@rnib.org.uk (Peter Bosher)
Hi,
Part of RNIB's work in the field of facilitating access to
electronic information involves approaching on-line providers and
designers of related applications, to raise their awareness of
the needs of blind users.
In the short-term, this has meant trying to keep text-based
interfaces going in parallel with the new graphical ones, but in
the longer term, as more and more go graphical, it will mean
trying to keep those as accessible as possible.
In approaching companies, I am looking for some guidelines on the
accessible design of on-line interfaces. There is plenty of
high quality material about accessible Web design, but does
any-one know of documents which describe good practice in the
design of comms and on-line interfaces? This should obviously
give comprehensive coverage of Windows-based applications.
Whilst writing, can you give me an Internet presence for the
Sensory Access Foundation, who may be able to help with this.
Any thoughts appreciated.
Regards.
Peter.
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Subject: W3 access for the blind
From: sen...@ptbma.usbm.gov (Mark J. Senk WB3CAI)
Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
I just learned of this server patch. It appears to extract a tree
structured list from web documents. Here is theurl, the announcement and
a copy of what you'll find at the url.
-- Mark
Pittsburgh Health and Safety Center - USBM
sen...@ptbma.usbm.gov - (412) 892-6513
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The url is : http://www.inf.ethz.ch/department/IS/ea/blinds/
and here is the message :
From: perr...@inf.ethz.ch (Louis Perrochon)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: *** W3-Access for Blinds ***
Date: 7 Sep 1995 19:28:13 +0200
Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <42na3d$7...@ea.inf.ethz.ch>
'W3-Access for Blind People' is intended to make web-surfing easier
for blind people. Structure information in HTML documents is
transformed on the fly into a form, that can be read easier by
visually handicapped. We assume that the blind computer user is
already familiar with a screen reader and already working with a
W3-browser. Our approach works with every W3-browser and every screen
reader. No additional software has to be installed at the user's
computer.
The patch for the CERN-Server is now available. If you have blind
users in your company, you might want to have a look at it.
You find everything at <http://www.inf.ethz.ch/department/IS/ea/blinds/>.
Louis
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Louis Perrochon (perr...@inf.ethz.ch)
Institut fuer Informationssysteme, ETH Zurich, Switzerland ++41 1 632 7282
URL: http//www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/perrocho/louis.html
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Subject: Re: X Windows Access (again)
From: Nolan...@Eng.Sun.COM (Nolan Toone)
Organization: Sun
In article <37...@handicap.news> mgar...@intgp13.ih.att.com (-Gardner,M.W.)
writes:
>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!
Grrrr, Seems like big companies have the problem of the right hand
not knowing what the left is doing. I may not be much better but I
do know that I helped our AccessX group add support to the new CDE,
so I know it is there in Solaris 2.4+. (it may have been there
earlier, I just wasn't aware of it). (Before you ask, I don't know
any more about it - yet).
Nolan Toone
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End of Issue # 1165 of the Blind News Digest
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