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On 2004-07-15, wrote:

Ditto, I can take a book along to peruse on a trip or something.
sInce I don't drive this old blind man will often haul along some
braille materials to look at while traveling. I don't do tapes as I
don't want to be buried behind headphones. SAme reason I probably
wouldn't do serious reading on a laptop with speech or one of those
little talking notetakers they sell to blind folks these days.

I used to work with a blind programmer who had a small Braille
terminal (1 row, 40 columns, as I recall). The thing was too big
to be carried around but I imagine a smaller version could be
made to go with a laptop.

THat brings me to another pet peeve. FOlks who do docs for
distribution on PDF format in such a way that Adobe's accessibility
plug-in won't pull it out to text that the screen reader can use by
outputting speech or braille. Only way to get these doccuments
accessible is to print the stupid things, feed them to your scanner
and let ocr crunch on them. THen you throw the paper away because
you're not going to use it again, then go through and clean up the
errors made by the ocr and edit sections for brailling in your word
processor of choice.

I don't know about Adobe's plugin but I have a pdftotext
utility. If you want, I can take a shot at your PDF with it.

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