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From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga for the handicapped
Message-ID: <1991May2.162224.22865@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 2 May 91 16:22:24 GMT
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In article <1991Apr29.101123.2536@midway.uchicago.edu> zama@ellis.uchicago.edu (iftikhar uz zaman) writes:
>(Uupath on my system couldn't find you so I am posting...apologies
>to anyone who finds this annoying...)
>
>I have a blind friend who wanted to know if she could do
>anyting with "computers"...Didn't know what to say.  Do you have
>any suggestions?  Would there be enough for her to do to make
>it worth it to shell out the money needed for hardware/software?
>What could she actually expect to do  (in the line of word-processing,
>spreadsheets, simple database stuff --e.g. money management,
>address-book etc....and *maybe* programming).
>
>Any help appreciated.

  I suggest that you find a program that says each keypress aloud, and
so that it works with ALL programs. It should, of course, have a high 
priority, too.


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    David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481  AMIGA  DDD-MEN  Tomas Arce 
           Any students from SUNY Oswego? Please let me know! :)

                   Un ragazzo di Casalbordino, Italia.