Dear list members, particularly Kathleen, I've read your messages all about tutorials. I would like to express my own comments about tgis situation. 1. Apart from Jonathan Mosen's tutorial, there are many materials to there you can learn about latest upgrades. The KeySoft readme is one of the few materials that works, but also Jonathan Mosen himself publishes what's coming in the next version on this list and on the HumanWare website. I would also say that HumanWare's website, which can be found at www.humanware.com is updated quite regularly when new information comes up. 2. Also, there are many people who receives information about the new versions of KeySoft (I'm one of them). These announcements are made on the BrailleNote list itself, meaning anybody could comment on it (including deaf blind folks). 3. There are two posibilities on dealing with audio-only tutorials: A. DAISY tutorials: If Jonathan considers it, then it might be useful if Jonathan produces tutorials on DAISY format with both audio and text. There are two advantages: one, if you have a DAISY software on your Braillenote with KeySoft 7.2, or on a PC, you can listen to these tutorials. Second, while listening, you can review the actual text that is written, meaning that deaf blind folks can get the same amount of informaiton that audio listeners will get. There are numerous disadvantages: one, some of us doesn't know what DAISY is and how it works, and second, some of us doesn't have a DAISY reader, and third, it might consume some time if Jonathan decides to manually write transcripts of his audio tutorials. B. Production of a complete text transcription of the audio tutorial: this might take a while, but it has several advantages: one, if the transcription is done digitally using programs such as Microsoft Word or Notepad, anybody, whether they are deaf blind or not, can get an idea what is actually presented on the tutorial, and second, you can read the actual transcripts and preform the listed functions. This, of course, has some disadvantages: one, it is quite time consuming to produce an exact or near excat text transcription of the audio tutorial, and second, this kind of information can be lost (this is the same disadvantage that the idea A has). My point is: that although deaf blind folks cannot access audio based tutorials, they can access numerous materials that is related to the tutorial. If the tutorial is a text transcription of the audio file, or if is a audio and text DAISY and you have KeySoft 7.2, you can view these materials using your BrailleNote. I hope that this point is not out of bounds. Thank you. Joseph Lee P.S. if you have further questions or comments, contact me off list at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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