Well... My Dad has just retired after years of hating his job, unfortunately he is blind, so job options aren't exactly wide spread so to speak.
His laptop had Jaws, screen reading software, which worked really well for him, and it was running on XP. Since retiring in May, his laptop has well and truly died (it's 7 years old).
So there are now a few issues in sorting him a laptop.
1 - Jaws Software was provided by the council when he worked for them, now he doesn't, he can't get it re-installed, and we now need an affordable alternative as Jaws is near enough £1000!
2 - He's only used XP, and he and I are unsure how he'll cope with 7 or 8 as he uses the keyboard only, obviously, and is used to navigating XP.
3 - He was using an OLD version of Office, but it's since been updated and the UI is totally different, again we're concerned about usability for him.
4 - The main reason I'm here, looking for a new laptop, it only needs to be capable of streaming Radio and videos, Internet browsing and running Microsoft Word so nothing demanding. Don't want anything too slow though, as we can all see when the hour glass or cog is spinning, and the PC is doing something, but waiting and not knowing can get frustrating. There is no budget per se, but the cheaper the better.
So any advice much appreciated.
His laptop had Jaws, screen reading software, which worked really well for him, and it was running on XP. Since retiring in May, his laptop has well and truly died (it's 7 years old).
So there are now a few issues in sorting him a laptop.
1 - Jaws Software was provided by the council when he worked for them, now he doesn't, he can't get it re-installed, and we now need an affordable alternative as Jaws is near enough £1000!
2 - He's only used XP, and he and I are unsure how he'll cope with 7 or 8 as he uses the keyboard only, obviously, and is used to navigating XP.
3 - He was using an OLD version of Office, but it's since been updated and the UI is totally different, again we're concerned about usability for him.
4 - The main reason I'm here, looking for a new laptop, it only needs to be capable of streaming Radio and videos, Internet browsing and running Microsoft Word so nothing demanding. Don't want anything too slow though, as we can all see when the hour glass or cog is spinning, and the PC is doing something, but waiting and not knowing can get frustrating. There is no budget per se, but the cheaper the better.
So any advice much appreciated.
