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From: bayes@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Scott Bayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Help for the nearly blind
Message-ID: <11010009@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 29 Jan 88 19:10:55 GMT
References: <1960@svax.cs.cornell.edu>
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>I finally brought my parents into the computer age.  My dad has taken to it
>fine, but my mom can't see well enough to use it.  I'm looking for suggestions
>on how to make the Mac useful for her too.

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>
>Has anyone come up with a good solution for this problem?  I like a DA solution,
>because the ability to move quickly from blind user's mode to normal mode is
>important.  If you have suggestions, please mail them to me.  If I get any
>interesting responses, I will summarize to the net in a couple of weeks.
>
>Doug Moore
>moore@svax.cs.cornell.edu

MacUser reviewed some software just recently (Feb issue) that may meet your
needs. It wasn't a large article, so look in the TOC, rather than just
leafing through.

Scott Bayes
bayes@hpfclw