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One thing that can be said for JAWS , especially the 4.x versions, is that
they all speak during the install so anyone can install regardless of
vision impairment.

Matt

At 02:26 PM 11/22/2002, John A. Byerly wrote:
>Christine,
>
>Thanks for your reply.
>
>Mom evaluated WindowEyes (I think that is how it is spelled).  The thing
>just wouldn't shut up.  It was happily reading everything and it was
>difficult for her to figure out what was going on.
>
>Mom hasn't expressed much of an interest in surfing the net, but since all
>of her kids live a distance from her (ditto for her brothers and sisters),
>she would like to use e-mail.
>
>I was in the process of writing an e-mail program for her, but I have been
>swamped with other work and have not been able to get back to it.
>
>As far as ConnectOutloud, my wife downloaded a demo of it some time ago, but
>was never able to get it working.
>
>One big complaint that Mom has (and I have as well) is that most of these
>programs require a person to have visual capabilities to configure.
>
>JAB

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