David Rathband and Twitter.

[Smowball]

A very sad story, and not meaning to be insentitive, but I was just curious about something. The news states that during his final days he posted very worrying tweets via Twitter. I was just wondering how a blind person does this? Is there a special app for the partially sighted/blind?

[ummmm]

Some sort of voice recognition.

[Berkshirelad]

Tactile keyboard? Feel the numbers on the numeric pad on yoour keyboard; the 5 will almost certainly have a little 'pip' sticking up that can be felt.

Braile keyboard? les likely

Voice activation? Probably.

[Mick-Talbot]

There is a blind person that uses answerbank.

I cannot remember the name, I think they posted an explaination of how they did it .

[cazzz1975]

I would imagine he uses voice recognition or type talk sorts of software. even windows has some accessibility options on the windows platform.

[Smowball]

Oh, yeh I guess so. Having never used Twitter I wasnt sure. Either way an awful outcome,bless him.

[cazzz1975]

woodelf

[Ratty2E]

He used voice recognition software on his computer. I heard him talk about it in an interview last year.

[Ann]

I know many Abers do not like or trust the Daily Mail but you cannot fail to be moved by this article about David Rathband by journalist Sue Reid.
http://www.dailymail....tml?ito=feeds-newsxml

[Smowball]

I read that Anne, very sad.

[Prudie]

woodelf has a screen reader that converts to speech I think he said, he can certainly 'read' replies to his posts

[chaptazbru]

Just read Sue Reid's article - crying again.