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Date: | Fri, 19 Feb 1999 09:40:34 EDT |
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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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