Posted 5/11/2013 1:22 PM (GMT 0)
crohntigued,
A fellow ham I contacted sent me this.
First, if he isn't signed up for rehab services, he probably should be. This varies by state, but all states have services for blind people, and he'll certainly want his case opened up so he can at the very least get some adjustment to blindness training. He'll also want to sign up to get talking books from the Library of Congress. More info here:
http://www.loc.gov/nls
If his vision is as bad as all that, an I'm sure it is, knowing what RP is like
(secondhand, i don't have it), qualifying for these shouldn't be hard.
Also, for $50/year, he can get lots of electronic texts, which can be read aloud by various software, here:
http://www.bookshare.org
And free newspapers on the phone, online, or on an iPhone app, here:
https://nfb.org/audio-newspaper-service
Now as to screen readers, here are some useful thing:
The company I work for has a couple packages of things. Probably the best deal would be Accessibility Anywhere, which gives a license for one computer for our
online content service (sorta like AOL for blind people), a screen reader, and an easy to use OCR package. $21.95/mont or $240/year.
http://www.serotek.com
There's a free screen reader software here:
http://www.nvda-project.org
It's fantastic, but the default voice is pretty awful. You can get a whole whack of better ones for $95 though, check
http://www.atguys.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=20&products_id=118
Those are the two things i use most often, anyway. Buddy.
Hope this helps.
T