Douglas Blane is a freelance Specialist Disability / Accessibility ICT software & hardware Special Educational Needs (SEN) trainer on the following:
Windows PC or Apple Mac operating systems, Parallels Virtual Machine
- textHELP Read & Write Gold (PC & Mac) [textHELP trained]
- Dragon Naturally Speaking (PC) Dragon Dictate (formerly Mac Speech) / Scribe (Mac) [nuance trained]
- Inspiration (PC & Mac)
- MindView (PC & Mac)
- ClaroRead (PC & Mac)
- ZoomText (PC)
- Olympus digital voice recorder & sonority software (PC & Mac)
- Ginger Software (PC)
- Global AutoCorrect (PC)
- DAISY players such as AMIS, EasyReader etc (PC & Mac)
Douglas has also be trained on the following:
HumanWare BrailleNote mPower (qwerty keyboard) (HumanWare trained)
Display Screen Equipment (DSE) Assessor (The Open University)
Throw away your mouse (RNIB trained)
Digital Accessible Information SYetem (DAISY) Digital Talking Book (DTB) software & hardware developer & trainer on many systems including:
Adaptive Multimedia Information System (AMIS)
Dolphin Easy Reader
Dolphin Easy Publisher
Dolphin Easy Converter

HumanWare Victor Reader Stream DIASY DTB Player Picture: Doug Blane
HumanWare Victor Classic
HumanWare Victor Reader Stream
HumanWare Victor Reader Wave
AMIS the DAISY Consortium DAISY Digital Talking Book player
TBP Player
Bookings for training can be made directly with Douglas, click here to load his contact page.
Bookings as part of the part of the Disabled Students Allowance (DSA) can be made through The Open University Access Centre.