I'm not sure why Apple didn't see how far they could go with this technology
to reach people with disabilities. An emate with keyboard navigation and
TTS would be so much better than what they have in the blind community right
now. But anyhow it sure works for me. And no other pda has it.
BTW egun on lagunak is good day friends in Basque.
"Egun On Lagunak!!"
Pete Nalda
http://www.realtime.net/~lpnalda
icq #39399612
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Benschop <robertbenschop@bigfoot.com>
To: newtontalk@planetnewton.com <newtontalk@planetnewton.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: NTLK Other Platforms: Palm is definitely NOT the one
>on 04-01-2000 10:13, Pete Nalda at lpnalda@bga.com wrote:
>
>> One other thing I wanted to mention is that I'm legally blind and newton
is
>> still the only pda with text to speech witch works in almost all the
apps,
>> and only wince comes close with audible, which only reads books and
email.
>>
>> Palm does have a magnifier program though called teal lens. Also psion
has
>> screen zoom.
>> "Egun On Lagunak!!"
>
>I'm very impressed, and I just thought the text to speech as a cool gadget
>because I think it's fun that my Newton starts speaking his reminders out
of
>the blue.
>BTW, what does "Egun On Lagunak!!" mean ?
>
>
>Robert Benschop
>
>
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