VI>It was suggested that you are someone who should know just how much some of
VI>us appreciate the funding that allows the Iowa Department for the Blind
VI>Assist With Windows project to produce their many tutorials.

VI>I am an assistive technology trainer for blind people and a partially blind
VI>speech userr myself.  Part of the difficulty we have in the never-ending
VI>struggle to keep up with  the technology that blind people must confront at
VI>school, in their jobs, etc. is that what is designed to be increasingly
VI>more intuitive and easy to learn for the sighted user is increasingly more
VI>complex for us.

VI>As someone who is self-employed, in order to remain competitive, I need to
VI>keep learning to use  as many applications and access packages as I can and
VI>sometimes with little advance warning.   As it is, there seems to be a
VI>shortage of people like myself who can provide good training,, and we
VI>ourselves must struggle to learn on our own as much as we can as quickly as
VI>we can.  In the short period of time they have been out, I have  come to
VI>depend on the Iowa tutorials to help me quickly transition from one
VI>combination of products to another before I must work with a client who is
VI>using something I haven't worked with in a while.     I have also used them
VI>to get a quick start with a new product.  These well-structured and
VI>thorough tutorials are just what an instructor needs as an aid to the
VI>lesson planning we never really have time for.  I can't emphasize how
VI>important this project is and how critical it is that their funding
VI>continue well into a future that doesn't promise to get easier


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Thanks for the info, but how does one get ahold of these Iowa
pictorials?
Please advise...
Thanks...
Frank
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