I got their tape materials and Gordon West's CD from them and I didn't
provide any proof of blindness.  I could have but I didn't have to.  Did I
just slip through or do they simply take your word for it?


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Subject: Re: Revisiting accessible amateur radio study materials.


> Message-Id:
> <20050116014521.CYLF1992.imf20aec.mail.bellsouth.net@[68.212.97.82]>
>
> nu7i wrote:
>   >Handiham's web site indicates that membership is required in order
>   >to purchase materials...
> That is always as I understood it when I was checking into their
> equipment manuals.  I had a 2 meter rig I wanted am anual for.  I
> didn't want a cassette manual for the same reason I wouldn't want
> cassette or audio file study materials.
> SUch formats are not quickly searchable, hence the same weakness with
> mp3 audio files.  Any word processor or text file viewer has a text
> string search function making such doccuments  quite usable when one
> wants to get to a certain piece of information quickly.  Manuals on
> tape were good enough when that's all there was, I grew up with many
> textbooks for school and college on tape, but the capabilities fr
> surpass that era.
> Halfwayu isn't good enough when you hold yourself out as "doing
> something for the disabled" and hence I join no general purpose
> disability organizations, handihams included.
> I know folks they've benefited greatly and I applaud their efforts,
> but when it comes to blindness they've only gone part of the distance.
> I can see no reason to supply them with the doccumentation they might
> need from doctors voc rehab etc. to prove I'm really blind to join
> their organization and get a manual on cassette tape.
>
> My lady and I end up going through manuals for audio equipment for my
> studio as well as ham gear and translating the weirdness as we go
> making me usable quick refernce guides which I then buzz off on my
> braille embosser.  sTill cumbersome but beats abridged study materials
> and manuals on cassette.
>
>
>
> Richard Webb
>
> Electric Spider Productions
>                                            "They that can give up
> essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>
> --- Benjamin Franklin, NOvember 1755 from the
> Historical review of Pennsylvania
>
>