I thought this may be of interest to some of you:
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Wilson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:10 PM
Subject: Tutorials for Visually Impaired People


> Dear List Owner/Members,
>
> I am a UK-based tutorial writer and I have just completed
> another
> tutorial for use by visually
> impaired people which you might like to make list members
> aware of by placing this message on your
> list, as I belive it caters at least in part for
> computer-related
> VI topics. The new tutorial is to do with many
> different types of sound playing, copying,
> converting, sound editing, and so forth.
>
> The tutorial has 18 main sections, around 160 sub-sections
> and
> over 44,000 words. A list of the main headings/software
> covered is given below.
>
> The tutorial is available as a plain ASCII text file by
> e-mail
> transfer at a cost of 28 US dollars.
>
> Would any interested persons, please contact me on:
>
> Phone: 0113 2575957 (from the UK)
>
> Phone: 01144 113 2575957 (from the US)
>
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
> Best regards,
> John Wilson.
>
>                            ********
>
>                   AUDIO PLAYING, COPYING AND
>                 SOUND EDITING FROM THE KEYBOARD
>
>
>                               BY
>
>                           JOHN WILSON
>
>                     Copyright February 2001
>                       All Rights Reserved
>
> {Main headings only given.}
>
> Section 1: Introduction
> Section 2: Types of CD Drives and Disks
> Section 3: Installing an Internal CD Drive
> Section 4: Basic Compact Disk Music Playing Directly from
> the CD
> Drive
> Section 5: Windows CD Player
> Section 6: Sound Cards and Windows Volume Control
> Section 7: Windows Media Player 6
> Section 8: RealPlayer Basic 8
> Section 9: What are MP3 Files and Where can they be
> Downloaded
> From?
> Section 10: Winamp Version 2.72
> Section 11: Quick and Easy Method of Playing MP3s
> Section 12: Using Stand-Alone Encoders to Create MP3 and
> other
> Audio Files
> Section 13: The MP3 File Context Menu
> Section 14: Adaptec Easy CD copier
> Section 15: Adaptec Easy CD Creator Standard
> Section 16: Adaptec Direct CD CD Disk formatter Version 2.5D
> Section 17: Windows Sound Recorder with JFW
> Section 18: Sound forge XP
>
> A full copy of the Table of Contents can be e-mailed to any
> interested persons.
>
>                            ********
>
> For anyone who does not already know, I have also written
> another
> eight from the keyboard tutorials in the past year. A short
> article about these is reproduced below. If anyone wants to
> see
> a full Table of Contents for any of these or would like more
> information, please e-mail or phone me about this.
>
>        MANUALS AND TUTORIALS TO ENABLE VISUALLY IMPAIRED
>        PEOPLE TO USE COMPUTER SOFTWARE FROM THE KEYBOARD
>
> 1. USING NON-SPECIALIST SCANNER SOFTWARE
> FROM THE KEYBOARD TO READ PRINT
>
> As a visually impaired person, would you like to be able to
> read
> your mail, newspapers, books etc, for a fraction of what it
> would
> cost you for a specialist print reading program? I have
> written
> a series of manuals explaining how to use off-the-shelf,
> non-specialist print recognition programs as reading
> machines for
> visually impaired people with their current computer and
> speech
> synthesiser or Braille display.
>
> TextBridge Millennium and OmniPage Pro 10, for example, can
> automatically open a scanned document in your word-processor
> for
> you for reading, editing and saving as soon as the scan job
> is
> complete. They can correct a crooked page and
> automatically orientate a page on the scanner for you
> whichever
> way around you put it on. This makes them almost as easy to
> use
> as the expensive specialist software.
>
> 2. MICROSOFT WORD 97
>
> Another tutorial to enable visually impaired persons to use
> a
> leading word-processor is "Microsoft Word 97 from the
> Keyboard",
> which takes someone from no experience of using a
> word-processor
> well into an intermediate stage of competence. It covers
> editing,
> Printing, spell-checking, autoFormatting, producing
> envelopes and
> labels, mail
> merging, and dozens of other facilities.
>
> 3. ACCESSING THE INTERNET
>
> I have also written a manual in two volumes to take learners
> onto
> the Net with Microsoft programs and show them how to e-mail
> and
> join newsgroups with Outlook Express, get around the Web
> with
> Internet Explorer 5X, use search engines, get online
> realaudio
> music stations and download programs and MP3 music tracks,
> make
> Internet shopping purchases, conduct online banking, plus
> many
> more useful utilities. The
> Web is a must for visually impaired people who might
> otherwise
> not be able to access invaluable information. This guide is
> called "Accessing the Internet From the Keyboard the Windows
> Way".
>
> The tutorials are available by e-mail transfer only and the
> price
> of each of the tutorials summarised in 1 to 3 above is 18 US
> dollars. The price of the "Audio Playing, Copying and Sound
> Editing from the Keyboard" tutorial is 28 US dollars.
>


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