Greetings:
You ask: Why Keysoft? I've been using computers with speech from the 1980's. The Keysoft programs are simple, straight forward and fill specific needs for me. A program that comes to me as a screen reader interpretation of a graphic user interface no matter how good the screen reader is not intuitive but requires me to "map" the program. Keysoft does not use those controls you find in graphic programs, all the controls are clearly available to finger or ear. Now I love my PC and my screen reader; but, also I love my PDA, the BrailleNote. I couldn't control my appointments --6 to 11 a day, on a PC without tangling with MS Office. I can do Office and do use it for email at work, but it is cumbersome and slower than Keysoft's planner. I guess I wouldn't put keysoft on my PC because I have a fine screen reader (WE) that serves me well in letting me move around the visual medium that computers have become. I don't want MS Windows on my BrailleNote because this is where I don't have to use adaptive software between me and the machine -- Keysoft isn't an interface between the program and the user, it is the program. With Keysoft I can read a book or magazine, keep up with my calendar, figure out my math problems, play a relaxation MP3 for a patient, look up a telephone number, and read and write email -- all functions I have done during the course of this Monday using Keysoft and without having to think about 5 or 6 differently designed and visually displayed programs.
