Disabilities and Computing Program

A general warning to all users interested in purchasing MacSpeech Dictate: One of our DCP clients reported having a problem with the program crashing upon trying to create a user. This of course, is a pretty essential step to using speech recognition software.

Upon further searching online, we found numerous sources pointing to this being an error related to a faulty English Language data disc (the other cd provided in the MacSpeech package). These sources claim this can be resolved by calling MacSpeech support and getting said disc replaced.

The DCP has recently obtained version 9.5 of Dragon Naturally Speaking and will be testing it’s compatibility with our various machines. Stay tuned for more information.

This WordPress Forum post outlines problems with unlabelled links (Add Media section), and other unreachable features in WordPress 2.5. Jaws 9 seems slightly better, where the “HTML” and “Visual” editing buttons show up as functioning links.

DragonStories Web page

The DCP office today received a demo ergonomic chair from Krueger International, or KI. The chair has various ergonomic features, and is available for evaluation from the DCP office.