[stylist] Fwd: Writing Tool Question

[David Andrews]

Don't reply here -- if you want to reach the original sender.

Dave


>From: "Susan \(Aly\) W. Parsons" <alypar at erols.com>
>To: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
>Cc: <alypar at erols.com>
>Subject: Writing Tool Question
>Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:39:53 -0400
>
>My thanks to Dave Andrews who agreed to forward this to your 
>list.  I  am not a  list member, and I  would appreciate it if you 
>could send any response directly to my email address (below).
>
>I  am a  writer who used Zoomtext for about 25 years. About a year 
>ago my vision dropped so that I'm down to a little lightt 
>perception, and recently I bought  JAWS.  I am  used to carrying 
>around a fresh  printout     of the scene or chapter I'm working on, 
>so that I  can continue editing and writing  whenever I'm away from 
>my computer.  I'm looking for suggestions of something 
>keyboard-sized and light that I'd be able to whip out of a large 
>purse and work on , preferably  something which won't require 
>converting the file format with every transfer between my laptop and 
>this smaller device.  I've heard I could load JAWS on a  netbook, 
>but that the atom processor is barely able to handle JAWSS and MS 
>Word at the same time.  Is that the way to go, and if so, do you 
>suggest  a specific brand?  Or do you recommend a different device?
>
>FYI, On my laptop, I  have JAWS 11, Windows XP, MS Word 2007, and 
>the latest WordPerfect.  (Until this year I was a wordPerfect user, 
>but switched to MS Word to make it easier for the screen reader.)
>
>My thanks for any  suggestions.  Again, please reply to me at my 
>email address.
>
>-- Aly Parsons
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