Hi Listers,
Here is notice of a new Win 95 manual written for blind users. I've been
using this for about 6 weeks and it's worth it's weight in gold!
Regards, Kelvin Marsh
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> From: Sarah Morley <s.morley@herts.ac.uk>
> To: kelvin@chiswick.globalnet.co.uk
> Subject: Windows 95 Explained for blind users now available
> Date: Monday, May 19, 1997 7:08 PM
>
> General Announcement Follows.
>
> Windows 95 Explained: A Guide for Blind and Visually Impaired Users
> By Sarah Morley
>
> Author of "Window Concepts: An Introductory Guide for Visually Disabled
> Users" for Windows 3.1
>
> ISBN: 1 85878 118 3
> Published by Royal National Institute for the Blind, Peterborough, UK,
1997.
>
> Back Cover:
> With the rapid emergence of Windows 95 in our homes and offices, this new
> Guide fills an important gap in the Windows literature. It describes the
> fundamental Windows 95 concepts from a non-visual perspective, and
provides
> a listing of Windows keyboard commands together with a comprehensive
> glossary, which will enable current computer users to start to work
> comfortably in Windows 95 with whatever access technology they have.
Some
> of the more advanced functionality is also described to help users make
> more effective use of Windows 95.
>
> "Windows 95 Explained" is aimed at individuals, trainers, schools and
> libraries and anybody working with Windows 95 and users with special
needs,
> who need to learn how to use Windows 95 - without having to see the
screen.
>
> This Guide is a sequel to "Window Concepts: An Introductory Guide for
> Visually Disabled Users", which described the concepts behind Microsoft
> Windows 3.1, and which has been voluntarily translated into French and
> Japanese. This Guide has received international acclaim, and is being
used
> by individuals, trainers, educational and corporate establishments. Many
> people have requested a similar book for Windows 95. And here it is -
> "Windows 95 Explained".
>
> The Guide is available in print, on IBM disk, on audio cassette and in
> Braille, with accompanying tactile and large print diagrams.
>
> Ordering the Guide:
>
> You can order Windows 95 Explained: A Guide for Blind and Partially
Sighted
> Users by Sarah Morley, from:
>
> RNIB Customer Services,
> P.O. Box 173,
> Peterborough,
> PE2 6WS, UK.
>
> Tel within UK: 0345 456 457,
> Outside UK: +44 1733 370 777
> Fax: +44 (0)1733 371 555
> email: jkerr@rnib.org.uk
>
> Each version of the Guide costs seven UK pounds, (cheques in pounds
> sterling, or credit card payment), and the dates they become available
are:
>
> Disk version (ASCII and Word 6), available now.
> Print version, 31st May
> Braille version, 2nd June
> Audio version, 4th July
>
> Tactile diagrams (both Braille-based and non-Braille with audio
> description) and Large Print diagrams will be available for purchase from
July.
>
> RNIB will accept orders for any of these materials in advance, or you may
> wish to wait till the appropriate time. I would be happy to hear comments
> on the new
> Windows Guide.
>
> Some Feedback from first Window Concepts Guide:
>
> "It is an extraordinarily valuable piece." GK, USA.
>
> "Congratulations for the excellent quality of the book. I particularly
> like your approach as it starts out with the fundamentals and does not
get
> carried away with details until much later. This is logical to most of
us
> but it is amazing how many writers of documentation do not seem to
agree."
> NJ, U.K.
>
> "I have studied a great deal of material about the Windows system, and I
am
> pleased to be able to say that this Guide is the best book I have read.
It
> has made everything much clearer and easier to understand, and as a blind
> person, I now feel much more confident about using Windows." JW, U.K.
>
> "I have been looking for a Braille book which would explain the windows
> concepts and keystrokes with diagrams and had not been able to find one.
> This is just what I had hoped for." MC, USA.
>
> "The folks I've used it with like the clear, narrative approach." CH,
USA.
>
> "This is a wonderful resource which will certainly benefit individuals
with
> visual impairments, university students and professionals working in the
> field of visual impairment. We will be sharing it with everyone we can."
> San Francisco State University, USA.
>
> end of message.
>
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