[duxuser] Re: duxbury for blind users

  • From: Daveed Mandell <daveed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:04:13 -0800 (PST)

I can only tell you that around here, people prefer Megadots--that is
blind people, but Megadots is a DOS program.
I'm updating my Duxbury, finally, to Windows, and everyone--about a dozen
people so far--is warning me about its pitfalls.


On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Catherine Thomas wrote:

> Blind and sighted transcribers do things differently because they have to.
> In addition most blind transcribers are familiar with braille. This is
> very different from someone who doesn't know much about braille and is
> only trying to produce a readable document. Why can't there be a couple of
> different user manuals tailored to different sets of needs?
> Catherine
>
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> -Catherine Thomas
> braille@xxxxxxxxx                     /
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