[infotech] Re: the Sight Villege magazine
- From: "Pranav Lal" <pranav.lal@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <infotech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:10:12 +0530
Yes, now that you mention it, I do remember this being discussed in a previous
addition.
Pranav
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There
is an interview about this in the magazine.
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From: Flor Lynch
Sent: 15/08/2011, 11:02 pm
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Pranav, et al:
To find out more about Guide Cats CD's, and where the idea came from,
you may visit
http://www.bcab.org.uk/guide-cats-cds
(There are, of course, people for whom guide dogs may not be suitable...
and so it goes. What, did I hear a snicker about guide horses coming
from somewhere in the long grass!?)
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From: "Pranav Lal" <pranav.lal@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 4:55 PM
Subject: [infotech] Re: the Sight Villege magazine
> Hi Terry and all,
>
> A brilliant magazine as usual. I loved the RNIB interview since it was
> so
> candid. The screen readers were very disappointing. Yes, advances have
> certainly been made but all I could see was that everyone was catching
> up
> with everyone else and that is that. Nothing really new like access to
> Visio
> or remote control access using mainstream software etc. I am getting a
> feeling that we need to own multiple screen readers to avoid playing
> catch-up. For instance, Window Eyes can handle WPF controls. I am not
> sure
> Jaws can or I think the support broke. The most encouraging thing in
> that
> entire section was Brian Hartgen agreeing to do in-depth coverage of
> Window
> Eyes and NVDA which, by the way stands for Non-visual desktop access.
> <chuckle
>
> I wish you had covered camera scanning appliances again but I am not
> surprised you did not since there is not much new there either.
>
> How about an Android phone demo on InfoTech? Yes, there are several
> podcasts
> out already but none of them make me feel as if I have virtually
> handled the
> product; that distinction goes to InfoTech.
>
> As for portable players, yes, wireless access is nice and that is all
> good
> but how about the basics like solar chargers and extending the battery
> life
> above 15 hours?
>
> By the way, whoever came up with the name of guide cats? Those cds
> sound
> interesting. I can't stand cats so that kind of turns me off but that
> is
> just my weird neurons.
> Pranav
>
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