[access-uk] Re: Sight Village: First Impressions
- From: "Tyrer, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Tyrer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:14:12 +0100
SN costs £835, but this is a full screen-reader with a full magnification
package. The Dolphin equivalent to Zoomtext with speech is called Lunar+ and
costs £395.
Jonathan
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Justin R
Sent: 21 July 2005 17:32
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sight Village: First Impressions
Hi Tony,
Yeah, it's all about having the opportunity to trial all these magnification
screanreader to evaluate which is the best one for us. I think supernova costs
about £600? pretty steep yeah, lol. It's a good alternative to try.
If I'm able to enroll for a computer course at college this year, which I
intend to do, I'll be working with the new supernova there as, the college have
told me that they have updated all their access software as well as spent money
of a bit extra kit.
My only quibble with zoomtext's screan reading level is; not telling me what
text field I'm in, not reading out the url on the address bar as I type it.
You have to enter a space in between words to get the speech to say anything
and, the spell checking issue where, you have to rely on the screan readers
prenounciation. With the last one, you can often get caught out like I do,
when i go and double check, that's what I've found.
All in all, a good day. I'm keen to go back next year.
Justin
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From: "Tony Cretney" <rac@xxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 4:58 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sight Village: First Impressions
>
> Hi Justin
>
> This was a very interesting piece. I was quite interested to see what
> you said abut Supernova as I have a demo pack of it here, although not
> actually running it at the present moment. I have debated getting it from
> time to time, but the price of it is rather heavy on the old wallet to say
> the least of it. It does have a perfectly good screen reader though,
> which I occasionally think I might get on better with than the one in Zoom
> Text, which is as you have said not altogether satisfactory. The Zoom
> Text one is the only one hat I really have any experience with so I have
> not the-faintest idea how well or badly I might function with the Hal
> reader in Supernova.
>
> Tony
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> From: "Justin R" <mypc128@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 10:44 AM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sight Village: First Impressions
>
>
>>
>> Hi Ray,
>>
>> I was quite impressed with SV myself. The claridon suites are quite
>> roomy although we did get caught in a lot of the crowds and was thankful
>> for having a sighted guide that came with us from my local blind assoc.
>> I have a lot of trouble navigating even smaller crowds of peoeple <sigh>.
>> Well, i did miss out on a lot of things as, I'd like to have seen the
>> apple mac screanreader and the note detector that Andrew spoke. i think
>> the limitation was having a guide who was so brand new to guiding us
>> plus, she was guiding the two of us.
>>
>> Anyway, I did get to see a good few things. I was pleased to try out the
>> current version of supernova which, seems to me to be very stable given
>> that my past experiences with SN haven't been good. The guy there was
>> very helpful and gave me and audio guide with their demo of sn. He was
>> using a braille display which I was interested in seeing as, I've never
>> seen one before and couldn't really imagine what one would look and how
>> it would work with reference to computer navigation. I saw one or two
>> CCTV come video magnifiers. Quite impressive really but, I feel these
>> things can slow me down in reading and my reading isn't all that steady
>> when scanning line to line of text. The pocket viewer was very
>> interesting to see. I did think it was a little bulky for the pokect
>> plus, it's farely heavy too! We did see a demo on Tag-it. Did anyone
>> see this. The thing that looks like a pricing gun that will identify
>> already tagged and named objects that have had info programmed into the
>> tag via computer. I was impressed with that indeed although, i won't
>> really need something like that. Despite frantically looking for the
>> remote control, or a mislaid book etc. I did come across the RNIB
>> talking book section RAy. I got to see the very thing I have on order,
>> the victor vibe. When i looked at it I thought, oh no, all the buttons
>> look the same! What is what here? I enlisted the help of one of the
>> representatives who guided me through each button and its function. I'm
>> really looking forward to receving my victor vibe even more than before!
>>
>> Oh, did anyone see this scanner? it was being demostrated by a woman
>> dressed in 12 century clothing, lol. Well, it's a book scanner reader
>> doubled up as a daisy player. Pretty good really. I think it could get
>> tiresome turning each page for scanning before the last lot has been
>> spoken, very bulky too. However, the voices are very impressive, clear
>> too. I did see mobile speak as well, I like the way the nokia menus are
>> reformatted, only a tad easier to see but, they do appear tidy and give
>> quicker access to the phone's functions. Saves trauling through menu
>> after menu. I did see the easy reader scanner, like the daisy player
>> scanner but smaller and the bierley mouse. I got some info I need to
>> sort out and demo discs, product catalogues and info on blind computer
>> users association? I'll have to look again at the disc i was given as, I
>> can't quite remember.
>>
>> I'm going back next year to try and cover what I've missed. I never got
>> to see STeve at computer rooms services although, I came across Graham
>> Longly's company, aspire consultancy, not technology as i mistakenly
>> called it, lol. Blame it on a tired brain.
>>
>> Justin
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