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The article was "Amiga Interface for Blind Users" by C. Mann in
Amazing Computing, Vol. 3 No. 8, August 1988.
The article is out of date. The people who wrote the article have
started a company:
David Hunt
C. W. Mann
Inspired Interfaces
25 Chester St.
Watertown, MA 02172
(617) 926-0439
Their software product is called Amiga Talk. Amiga Talk hooks itself
into the input chain and Text() graphics primitive and speaks all
user input and all textual output from the Amiga. Amiga Talk also
has some method of allowing the blind user to step through the gadget
list on a menu and select it from the keyboard. This allows the
blind user to operate the Amiga without a mouse. For example, the
blind user can use Preferences without a mouse.
Inspired Interfaces also sell Amiga 500 packages that include an Amiga
500 that I.I. has adapted for the blind (for example, labeled all the parts
of the machine in Braille) and selected software titles.
I have a demo disk of Amiga Talk. The disk is the real, full-featured
Amiga Talk with one addition: every five minutes it speaks a 15 second
commercial for itself. I.I. allows copies of this demo the be given
out. If anyone sends me a floppy, I'll copy the demo onto it and
send it back.
The demo is a self booting disk that gives a tutorial on Amiga Talk
and several programs that have been adapted for the blind.
A friend of mine and fellow Amiga owner, Al Blackington, had a very bad
stroke just over a year ago. The stroke left him effectively blind.
About six months ago, the hospital that he is staying at while recovering
set up his Amiga for him. I managed to get a copy of the Amiga Talk
software for him, and it seems to what he needs. The hospital was so
impressed with the software that it bought Al's Amiga 1000 when he
upgraded to a 2000. The hospital wanted its other patients to be able
to use the Amiga Talk software.
For your copy of the Amiga Talk demo, send a floppy to:
Randy Meyers ZKO 2-3/N30
Remember to enclose your name and mailstop.
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