[Diabetes-talk] Prodigy Voice Accessible User Guides

[David Anspach]

Hello Jonathan,
Thanks so much for providing the links to the accessible version of the
Prodigy Voice meter.  Will these links always be available and working, or,
should we save each page to the hard drive of our PC? Second, I ran across
the following text in the manual that I found well, rather offensive, for
lack of a better word. The text is as follows and can be found in the
pre-cautions portion of the manual:
1. Close supervision is necessary when the device is used by, on, or near
children, handicapped persons  or  invalids.

This text can be found on the  following page:
http://www.northcoastmed.com/accessible/voice_userguide.txt 
Ok, perhaps I'm being a bit naive, but I thought the term of "handicapped
persons" went out with the turn of the century? Anyway, I thought this was a
rather ridiculous statement in that it includes cautioning against someone
with a "handicap"  either using or being near the device while it is being
used. Are you kidding me? How can DDI put this type  of language into the
user manual of a product they have developed for use by the blind?

I apologize Jonathan as I know you are not directly affiliated with DDI, but
who can I contact regarding this ridiculous statement? I would like to see
this ridiculous pre-cautionary statement be removed from the user manual
sooner than later. I hope I'm not being too picky as I think the Voice is an
awesome meter and your company, Jonathon, does quite well too. If you all
think I am being overly picky, then please let me  know and I will just let
it go. But if you are with me, then let me know that as well.

Have a great night,

Dave


-----Original Message-----
From: diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jon Carey
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:30 PM
To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind
Subject: [Diabetes-talk] Prodigy Voice Accessible User Guides

This is a repost but I recently noticed some members of the list asking if
anyone knew of an accessible user guide for the voice. I have taken the
Prodigy Voice User Guide and formatted it so that everyone can use a screen
reader to utilize the user guide. 

 

Here are the links again. I also put the Audio User Guide that comes with
the Prodigy Voice on the website for those that would like to access each
track at your leasure.

 

Accessible Text User Guide Click Here
<http://www.northcoastmed.com/accessible/voice_userguide.txt>  

 

Accessible HTML User Guide Click Here
<http://www.northcoastmed.com/accessible/voice_userguide.htm>  

 

Voice Audio User Guide Audio Tracks Here
<http://www.northcoastmed.com/audio/> 

 

I just put these together to make life a little easier for those that can
not see. Hope it helps 

 





 

 

 

 

Best Regards, 

 

Jonathan Carey
Marketing Director
Advanced Diabetes Supply
1-800-730-9887 x 7220

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