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From: T V Raman (raman@cs.cornell.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 11 1994 - 07:06:00 PST


You might want to consider the following: there are not too many
accessible documentation sources for the workstation environment and
the following product from DEC sounds very promising.

--Raman From: "Mike Paciello, VIIS: 381-1831" <paciello@shane.enet.dec.com>
To: mail11:;@us2rmc.bb.dec.com@us2rmc.bb.dec.com (@viold_dis)
Subject: Vision Impaired On-Line Documentation (VIOLD) from DEC!
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 94 14:33:28 EST

Dear Colleague:

Several months ago I announced Digital's intent to produce an exciting new
CD-ROM product for blind and vision impaired persons. Today that product
is now a reality called Vision Impaired On-Line Documentation or simply, VIOLD.

VIOLD is a collection of current Digital product documentation in ASCII text
format and distributed on an ISO 9660 formatted CD-ROM. The VIOLD CD-ROM
provides platform independent access to information for our vision impaired
customers. You can flexibly output the documentation to a braille printer,
refreshable braille display, and DECtalk speech synthesizer!

You can purchase VIOLD on a one-time basis or as a subscription (update
service). Order VIOLD today by dialing 1-800-DIGITAL (1-800-344-4825). Once the
voicemail operator answers, Press 1. The VIOLD part numbers to request are:

VIOLD Documentation Kit: QA-2FFAA-G8
VIOLD Consolidated Documentation Update Service: QT-2FFAA-C8

If you are a customer who resides outside of the USA, please call your local
Digital Sales office and ask for VIOLD. It is a world-wide product. Should
you have any problems, please don't hesitate to call me personally. My number
is located at the end of this mail.

Let me assure you that you can take this CD and install it on any CD reader
that is ISO 9660 compliant and read it using most operating systems. You have
total accessibility to over 225 volumes of Digital Equipment computer
reference documentation at a cost of about $1.00 per book! An absolute bargain
for anyone! If you would like a complete description of the current VIOLD
CD-ROM, just contact me and I'll send it to you immediately.
 
VIOLD's list of new books is growing. Subsequent versions will include
Alpha, RDB, OSF, and PathWorks. We will continue to update and revise the
documentation already on VIOLD. We are looking at including PC-based
documentation from 3rd-party vendors. Finally, we are looking to build an
accessible cross-platform viewing engine. We would love to hear what you
would like for us to add to this new product. Just call me.

There is one favor that I'd like to request from you personally. In order
to ensure that we are providing a product that is useful to our vision
impaired customers, we'd like to get your response to the following questions.
This will take less than 10 minutes of your time and I'd be personally grateful
to hear from you. I guarantee that I will respond to your thoughts and
questions.

1) Do you (or your institution/corporation) plan on purchasing VIOLD?

2) If you do plan to purchase it, when? (Give a time frame in months, starting
   from Feb. 1, 1994)

3) If you do not plan to purchase it, why not?

4) Whether you plan to purchase VIOLD or not, how do you think we can improve
   the product?

5) Would you like us to send you a VIOLD mailer (it's overlayed with Braille)?

6) Please provide us with your name, institution/corporation, address, and
   phone number if you would like us to call you about VIOLD!

Thanks so much for taking the time to read this. Once again, we truly
appreciate your help in making VIOLD a reality. And please, by all means spread
the word! You are welcome to copy this mail to any other listserv or bulletin
board system.

Regards,

Michael G. Paciello
Digital Equipment Corporation
Program Manager
Vision Impaired Information Services (VIIS)
110 Spit Brook Road
Nashua, NH. USA 03062
Phone: (603) 881-1831
TDD: (603) 881-0437
Internet: Paciello@Shane.Enet.Dec.Com
Vice-Chair: International Committee for Accessible Document Design (ICADD)
Member: Electronics Industries Association/Assistive Devices Division (EIA/ADD)
Member: Project EASI

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