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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