Hi Listers, If you use computerized Bible study programs, you might find the following of interest, if not, delete. smile
Recently I became aware of a website called The Word. It is free and the owner has sent me 2 emails, the relevant portions of which I include below. It supposedly works well for low vision people, but, I am wondering how friendly or convenient people using screen reader software find it to be. David Cox writes: The reason for my present email is to just inform you of a feature in theWord Free Bible program that allows you to magnify the text for the reading impaired. http://www.thewordmodules.com/visuallyimpaired.html I think you might find TheWord a good resource for the visually impaired Bible student. At present I have about 120 books done (in English), and about 40 in Spanish. My ministry is principally in Spanish, so I am writing books (about 50 so far) which also are free. As the library grows, we hope to have probably 3,000 books online (formatted for TheWord Bible program). I have that many files on my computer in pdf and e-Sword format, so that is what I am hoping to have converted and available for TheWord in a year or two. The TheWord program is very powerful in searching and cross referencing Greek, Hebrew, and other Bible verses, so it would be a tremendous help to the visually impaired. It is also free, and all the modules which I am formatting for theWord will also be free. I just thought you might be in a position to communicate this free Bible resource to your people. In Christ, David Cox In a second email Pastor Cox writes: I have forwarded your message to Mr. Costas, the developer of TheWord free Bible program so that he can see the needs of your group. He is very helpful at adapting, modifying and changing his program for his users. Perhaps he will very soon put out the help manual. Even though he doesn't have the manual ready, I have a website dedicated to explaining how to use TheWord. http://www.thewordmodules.com/ I am interested in seeing what I can do about providing some of our books for the blind. Are you familiar with the Microsoft Reader program? There is a plugin for that program that will read the book out loud for you. After thinking about it a bit, would it be better for your people to have these book modules in this format? If so, I will work on converting them to that format. We have about 1000 books in the e-Sword format, and I am trying to work to put them all into TheWord Bible program format. If this is a useful option for you, I will work on that also. End of quotations. Now then, Saints, those of you who use these kinds of programs, I would be interested in your comments and suggestions once you have check things out. Listening for His shout! Grant Bartimaeus Alliance of the Blind, Inc P.O. Box 572 South San Francisco, CA 94083-0572 Phone: 650-589-6890 Email: [email protected] Website: http://bartimaeus.us/ __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4477 (20091002) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com 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. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
