the following emessage has been posted to the BLIND-DEV list on behalf of a
non-subscriber -- please include her email address <[log in to unmask]> in
your replies....  note that i have already added it to the CC field, but
please double check your headers to ensure that your mail client is
actually replying to all if you do reply to the forwarded request...

as for my 2 cents on the topic -- preparing a computer for use by an
individual with progressive vision loss due to RP -- i recommend that the
poster ask the question on one of the RP-specific or general
adjustment-to-blindness-related lists described at:
<http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/blist.html>
a hypertextualized resource that is also available as a plain text file via
email, by sending the command:
GET BLIST INFO
to <[log in to unmask]>

finally, to sharon, the original poster, my apologies for not forwarding
your emessage to the list more expeditiously, but i have been offline since
8 may, but am now (obviously) back online...

gregory, listowner BLIND-DEV

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Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 16:59:28 +0100
From: Sharon <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Help for a friend

Dear Blind-Dev,

One of my close friends is going blind at a very young age of 40 due to
RP.  I was wondering if there are any computer systems available now for
the blind.  Specifically she works in sales.  One that could handle a
sales database where the user could request account information and dial
that contact for the user.

Please let me know if anything like this is availabe and anything else
that is computer related, or telephone related.  I just called Bell
South and they said they only have phones for the hearing empaired and
nothing for sight empaired.

thank you
Sharon Ives
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