>From: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "BLIND-DEV: Development of Adaptive Hardware & Software for the
>            Blind/VI" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Help for a friend with RP (forward from non-susbscriber)
>Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 16:47:17 -0400
>
>the following emessage has been posted to the BLIND-DEV list on behalf of a
>non-subscriber -- please include her email address <[log in to unmask]> in
>your replies....  note that i have already added it to the CC field, but
>please double check your headers to ensure that your mail client is
>actually replying to all if you do reply to the forwarded request...
>
>as for my 2 cents on the topic -- preparing a computer for use by an
>individual with progressive vision loss due to RP -- i recommend that the
>poster ask the question on one of the RP-specific or general
>adjustment-to-blindness-related lists described at:
><http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/blist.html>
>a hypertextualized resource that is also available as a plain text file via
>email, by sending the command:
>GET BLIST INFO
>to <[log in to unmask]>
>
>finally, to sharon, the original poster, my apologies for not forwarding
>your emessage to the list more expeditiously, but i have been offline since
>8 may, but am now (obviously) back online...
>
>gregory, listowner BLIND-DEV
>
>--- FORWARDED MESSAGE ---
>Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 16:59:28 +0100
>From: Sharon <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Help for a friend
>
>Dear Blind-Dev,
>
>One of my close friends is going blind at a very young age of 40 due to
>RP.  I was wondering if there are any computer systems available now for
>the blind.  Specifically she works in sales.  One that could handle a
>sales database where the user could request account information and dial
>that contact for the user.
>
>Please let me know if anything like this is availabe and anything else
>that is computer related, or telephone related.  I just called Bell
>South and they said they only have phones for the hearing empaired and
>nothing for sight empaired.
>
>thank you
>Sharon Ives
>------------------------------------------------
>The optimist thinks that this is the best of all
>possible worlds; the pessimist knows it is.
>------------------------------------------------
>Gregory J. Rosmaita     <[log in to unmask]>
>        Webmaster & Minister of Propaganda
>The Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group of
>the New York City Metropolitan Area (VICUG NYC)
>       <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/vicug/>
>------------------------------------------------

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