You know what!

I believe that we all need to take responsibility for how accessible
material is for us.

Their is not a thing wrong with asking for someone's assistance.

If your presentation is done right, people will help you and they will feel
better about it.

Especially if you let them know how much there help is appreciated.
73 De Anthony W2AJV
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Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: Revisiting accessible amateur radio study materials.


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> n7i wrote:
>   >I actually have no problems providing reasonable proof of
>   >disability to join Handiham.  It is an excellent organization.
>   >Like all organizations dealing with those of us who have
>   >disabilities, Handiham staff need to take all reasonable steps to
>   >be accessible to us, including making the membership process as
>   >accessible as possible.  This is just a matter of common sense. Why
>   >not join Handiham?
> Cassette and audio reading are fine for light reading such as a novel,
> but I've not cared for refernce material in that format since I was a
> student in the 60's and '70's but it was often the only game in town.
> I can skim material in braille or electronic formats.
>
> Why not join?  I don't see with a lot of what they offer I'm getting
> that much.  I know, it's partly my activist bent.  I know blind folks
> who are very active with the organization with their radio camps etc.
> A couple are good friends of mine.  I just don't have a need for what
> they offer.  Part of it is as you said, I think the league leans to
> heavily upon them for acessibility to materials and then we're not
> really consulted on how this is done.  AGain I site the manual for the
> piece of radio equipment which they had on cassette.  By the time I
> went through any hoops to join and finally got the cassette manual
> back I'd have already found out the info I really wanted about setting
> up the equipment which I bought for less than a hundred bucks at a
> hamfest <grin>.
>
> TO me their first option for accessible materials should be machine
> readable with cassette as the second choice offering.  wHen I was a
> student I much preferred braille to tapes, then mostly 7 inch reels
> btw.  FOr the latest tOm Clancy novel an audio only edition is fine
> but for anything which is intended as a reference work tapes are an
> inferior method of accessing information.
>
>
>
>
> Richard Webb
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