Hi Sandra, There's a mailing list with a name like "blind technology" which you could google for, and subscribe to. They cover topics like this.
A lot of digital phones do connect to your pc for one reason or another (you may not know about the connection; you may see the ethernet cable going from your pc to the phone, and then one from the phone to the wall). In such cases, many phone system manufacturers offer special software packages which speak the status of the various items of the phone. You could ask your tech support people if such software is available for your phone. (there's even an app in app central (named AccessAPhone) for a commercial package which does this for many brands of phone systems). hth, Chip -----Original Message----- From: Sandra Fouts [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 10:08 AM To: GW Micro Product Discussion Listserv Subject: Sorry off topic question for other blind folks I'm really sorry for the off topic question but not sure where to go to find this information out. I need to find out something that might help me in my job here. Years ago, I use the light probe on phone systems here and other jobs. We have had this system for several years and I don't use a probe now because this phone is digital and has arrows or something that still flashes but it's not a light that an old probe will work on. There is an old problem that we are trying to resolve. Obviously we are not getting a new phone for me. So, is there any new gaget that might work on this kind of system? Johnye Pryor, who is on this list knows what phone system I'm talking about. She use to work here. She was here when we got it. AT that time we didn't know of anything. That was in June of 2000. Basically I can't tell if my phone is ready, or not ready for me to take phone calls, unless I just go ahead and log myself back into the system, even when I'm I'm already in, or if I dial numbers and see if my phone rings. Just this week we figured out that if I dial numbers to see if my phone will ring so I can take calls, and then immediately hang up, it will show on our log sheets as abandond calls. And that's not good. Hope this make since. Any ideas that don't cost much? Again, I really really sorry for the off topic issue. Maybe someone can give an idea where to go for this. Thanks a bunch. Sandra Fouts Phone Counselor Arkansas Attorney General's Office 323 Center Street, Ste 200 Little Rock, AR 501-371-2303 Fax 501-682-8118 If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
