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January 2002 • Volume 3 • Number 1
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Cover photo of a woman using a braille notetaker.
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Driving Windows for the First Time
How to start programs, interact with them once they're running, and use some basic keyboard commands—Joseph J. Lazzaro, print edition page 5
Choosing a Screen Magnifier
A review of Dolphin Computer Access's LunarPlus, compared with its competition: Freedom Scientific's MAGic 8.0 and Ai Squared's ZoomText Xtra 7.06—Kevin Dusling and Mark Uslan, print edition page 12
Dial A for Access: Getting Cell Phones You Can Really Use
What you can do to get an accessible phone—and what the future holds—Jennifer Sutton and Janina Sajka, print edition page 17
And Then There Were Two: A Review of Braille Notetakers
Comparisons of the two leading notetakers: Pulse Data International's BrailleNote and Freedom Scientific's Braille Lite Millennium—Jay Leventhal and Jim Denham, print edition page 22
Focused and User Friendly: Doug Geoffray
An interview with Doug Geoffray, cofounder of the assistive technology company GW-Micro—Deborah Kendrick, print edition page 34
Surfing by Ear: Usability Concerns of Computer Users Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
A survey of how blind and visually impaired people use the web and what they want—Elaine Gerber, print edition page 38
News, print edition page 44
Calendar, print edition page 46
Editor in Chief |
Jay D. Leventhal |
Contributing Editors |
Paul Schroeder, Senior Editor |
Executive Editor |
Sharon Shively |
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