Will do. Maybe over the weekend, I can borow my husband's eyes to get 
an idea of the layout of the program.

I'll let you know if I find out anything useful.

As for reading the Bible itself, i often use just a plain text or 
htmml copy myself but it is nice to be able to do searches or compare 
versions, which a Bible program lets you do.

In His Loving Grip!

Doris

At 06:40 PM 10/2/2009 -0700, you wrote:
>Doris,  Yes, this is Pastor David Cox in mexico city. I have to 
>email addresses for him which are:
>
>[log in to unmask]  or
>
>[log in to unmask]
>
>I have not been able so far to understand the program or its 
>functions so far myself. That is why I thought I would put it out on 
>the list and see if anybody else was aware of it and able to 
>understand its use with a screen reader such as Window-Eyes, which 
>is was I have. I also put out the same request on the GWInfo email 
>list. You are my first response. Sounds like neith one of us have 
>much knowledge as yet. grin
>
>What I am looking for is the ability to read the books he might have 
>which interest me.  When it comes to Bibles, I like using the text 
>file versions of my preferred translations.
>
>Keep me posted if you figure out some things and I will try and do the same.
>
>Listening for His shout!
>
>Grant
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris & Doris" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 5:45 PM
>Subject: Re: computerized Christian books
>
>
>>Is this Pastor David who is a missionary to Mexico? If it is the 
>>same guy, I corresponded with him a few times about E-Sword.
>>
>>I downloaded The Word  and gave it a quick check but I have not 
>>been able to find out how to even get to the Bible text. If you can 
>>give some advice to get me started, it would be appreciated.
>>
>>I need to check if I still have an email address for Pastor David.
>>
>>Thanks much for bringing this to our attention.
>>
>>God Bless,
>>
>>Doris
>>
>>At 04:15 PM 10/2/2009 -0700, you wrote:
>>>Hi Folks,
>>>
>>>Recently I became aware of a website called The Word. It is free 
>>>and the owner has sent me 2 emails, the relevant portions of which 
>>>I include below. It supposedly works well for low vision people, 
>>>but, I am wondering how friendly or convenient people using screen 
>>>reader software find it to be.
>>>
>>>David Cox writes:
>>>The reason for my present email is to just inform you of a feature in
>>>theWord Free Bible program that allows you to magnify the text for the
>>>reading impaired.
>>>
>>><http://www.thewordmodules.com/visuallyimpaired.html>http://www.thewordmodules.com/visuallyimpaired.html
>>>I think you might find TheWord a good resource for the visually impaired
>>>Bible student. At present I have about 120 books done (in English), and
>>>about 40 in Spanish. My ministry is principally in Spanish, so I am
>>>writing books (about 50 so far) which also are free. As the library
>>>grows, we hope to have probably 3,000 books online (formatted for
>>>TheWord Bible program). I have that many files on my computer in pdf and
>>>e-Sword format, so that is what I am hoping to have converted and
>>>available for TheWord in a year or two. The TheWord program is very
>>>powerful in searching and cross referencing Greek, Hebrew, and other
>>>Bible verses, so it would be a tremendous help to the visually impaired.
>>>It is also free, and all the modules which I am formatting for theWord
>>>will also be free.
>>>I just thought you might be in a position to communicate this free Bible
>>>resource to your people.
>>>In Christ,
>>>David Cox
>>>In a second email Pastor Cox writes:
>>>I have forwarded your message to Mr. Costas, the developer of TheWord
>>>free Bible program so that he can see the needs of your group. He is
>>>very helpful at adapting, modifying and changing his program for his
>>>users. Perhaps he will very soon put out the help manual. Even though he
>>>doesn't have the manual ready, I have a website dedicated to explaining
>>>how to use TheWord.
>>><http://www.thewordmodules.com/>http://www.thewordmodules.com/
>>>I am interested in seeing what I can do about providing some of our
>>>books for the blind. Are you familiar with the Microsoft Reader program?
>>>There is a plugin for that program that will read the book out loud for
>>>you. After thinking about it a bit, would it be better for your people
>>>to have these book modules in this format? If so, I will work on
>>>converting them to that format. We have about 1000 books in the e-Sword
>>>format, and I am trying to work to put them all into TheWord Bible
>>>program format. If this is a useful option for you, I will work on that
>>>also. End of quotations.
>>>
>>>Now then, Saints, those of you who use these kinds of programs, I 
>>>would be interested in your comments and suggestions once you have 
>>>check things out.
>>>
>>>Listening for His shout!
>>>
>>>Grant
>>>Bartimaeus Alliance of the Blind, Inc
>>>P.O. Box 572
>>>South San Francisco, CA 94083-0572
>>>Phone:  650-589-6890
>>>Email:  <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
>>>Website:  <http://bartimaeus.us/>http://bartimaeus.us/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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