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From: Linda Scott
Date: Mon, Mar 08 2004 1:51AM
Subject: Can anyone tell me about Jaws?
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Hi I am linda Scott I live in new zealand I have a learning disability and I have just br
From: Ben Morrison
Date: Tue, Mar 09 2004 2:59AM
Subject: Re: Can anyone tell me about Jaws?
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On 8/3/04 8:42 am, "Linda Scott" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Hi I am linda Scott I live in new zealand I have a learning disability and I
> have just brought Dragon Natuarlly speaking and Jaws But I don't have a clue
> how and when I used these products And the Copyright laws when I scan
> textbooks to read Can you help?
>
> thanks Linda
Hi Linda,
Ive never used these products myself so I cant be of much help im afraid. Im
not sure about copyright laws either, most of us use this list to help us
build sites so that jaws can read them properly. Maybe someone else can
offer some help or some links to forums that could be of help to linda?
Ben
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From: Richard Sweet
Date: Tue, Mar 09 2004 5:21AM
Subject: RE: Can anyone tell me about Jaws?
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Hi Linda
Although this is sort of off-topic, I guess some of this might be of
interest to others as well, since it involves 'alternative formats'.
In the UK there are now guidelines that allow schools and colleges to make
digital copies of textbooks etc for visually impaired students (for personal
use). Interestingly, though, it doesn't cover learning disabilities or
indeed any other disability.
For New Zealand, the relevant part of the Copyright Act 1994 seems to be
section 43, which I've copied below.
My interpretation is that, as long as you're only using it yourself, and as
long as you can't obtain the text electronically elsewhere (on CD-ROM, for
example), you're ok to scan in what you need.
I don't know what sort of help you're looking for with your software; the
only advice I can give is that, as you get used to listening to JAWS, you
increase the speaking speed to get through things quicker!
Richard
http://www.legislation.govt.nz/browse_vw.asp?content-set=pal_statutes
43.Research or private study-
(1)Fair dealing with a work for the purposes of research or private
study does not infringe copyright in the work.
(3)In determining, for the purposes of subsection (1) of this
section, whether copying, by means of a reprographic process or by any other
means, constitutes fair dealing for the purposes of research or private
study, a court shall have regard to-
...the purpose of the copying; and... whether the work could have
been obtained within a reasonable time at an ordinary commercial price; and
(4)Nothing in this section authorises the making of more than one
copy of the same work, or the same part of a work, on any one occasion.
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