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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