John,
I still don't understand why you don't arrange an online payment option
such as through PayPal or similar services.  Alternatively, you could
use a vendor who is able to accept credit card payments online.  I
think your sales would increase markedly.  I personally have thought of
buying some of your tutorials, but simply haven't gotten around to the
paper-check-and-envelop routine, which is uncommon these days.

Regards,
Jamal
On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 16:14:14 +0100, John Wilson wrote:

Hello Listers,

I am a UK-based visually impaired tutorial writer who writes
tutorials and manuals for other VI persons or their
trainers. Below is a short article about the nine tutorials
which I have written in the last year. If you are not
interested in this type of thing, please accept my apologies
at this stage and just use your delete key.

For those who are interested, the article gives a brief
description of the tutorials plus UK pound and US dollar
prices. AS I am not set up to take payment buy credit card,
any payment would have to be by cheque in pounds or dollars.

Should anyone like a full list of the complete Tables of
Contents of my tutorials, please contact me for this.
Details are provided below.

Best regards,
John Wilson.

********

       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 orientated 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".

4. Playing, Copying and Editing Music and Speech Sound
Tracks

This tutorial is called "Audio Playing, Copying and Sound
Editing
from the Keyboard". It was completed in March 2001 and
covers 18
major sections and has over 155 sub-sections on topics such
as
installing CD read/write drives; information about Sound
cards
and compact disks; Making your own Audio music CDs from
other
CDs, from Windows WAV files and from MP3 files downloaded
from
the Internet; using the freeware FREERIP.MP3 MP3 copier;
playing
music with Windows CD Player, Winamp and RealPlayer; Sound
file
production and editing with Windows Sound Recorder and Sound
Forge Xp; and very much more. This tutorial can be regarded
as
either for fun, serious commercial sound editing or both.

Would any interested persons please contact the author, John
Wilson, in the UK on:

Phone: 0113 2575957 (from the UK)

Phone: 01144 113 2575957 (from the US)

E-mail: [log in to unmask]

                           ********

The tutorials are available by e-mail transfer or on floppy
disk as plain text files and the price
of each of the tutorials summarised in 1 to 3 above is 10
pounds by e-mail or 12 pounds on floppy disk. The price of
the "Audio Playing, Copying and Sound
Editing from the Keyboard" tutorial is 15 pounds by e-mail,
17 pounds on floppy disk or 20 pounds on four C94 cassettes
as a straight reading (it just fits on). There is also a
CD-ROM version of the audio sounds tutorial for 20 pounds
which contains the plain text tutorial plus three up-to-date
freeware programs
which I downloaded from the Internet and which are covered
in the tutorial, including Winamp 2.72, FREERIPMP3 and
RealPlayer 8 Basic.

Please note: The only medium the tutorials are available in
outside of the UK is by e-mail transfer. In this case, All
tutorials will cost 18 US dollars, except for the Audio
Playing, Copying and Sound Editing from the Keyboard
tutorial, which will cost 28 US dollars.


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