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Hi Amy,
I have not gone to the site but here is some information and I hope it
helps.
Virgie and Hoshi
Subject: TV Listings
Date: Monday, October 31, 2005 9:10 AM
ACCESSSIBLE TV LISTINGS EXPERIMENT NOW BEING CONDUCTED tv-now.com has been
offering listings of tv programs free-of-charge to
blind users for several years but the software needed to access the lists
was very conplex to use. Currently, tv-now.com is providing a daily tv
schedule in a text format which can be read on-line or downloaded to your
favorite word processor and read off-line. tv-now.com also offers a
listing for the whole month of programs that contain the audio
descriptions (DVS).
For those of us who have tried to read print tv listings this access is
particularly important.
Here are the links to access the various things.
To read the list of DVS programs for a given day, go to:
<http://www.tv-now.com/dvs> http://www.tv-now.com/dvs There you will find a
separate link for each day of the month. Follow that
link to read the scheduled dvs programs for that day.
To read or download a whole day's tv listings go to:
<http://www.tv-now.com/dvs/sunday.txt> http://www.tv-now.com/dvs/sunday.txt
This link will show you the entire text for Sunday. The file contains the
show or movie titles, episode title if any, channel, time, director and
stars for the movies, and a description if there is one.
The days's file is also broken into six-hour increments. To access these
go to:
<http://www.tv-now.com/dvs/sunday1.txt>
http://www.tv-now.com/dvs/sunday1.txt
<http://www.tv-now.com/dvs/sunday2.txt>
http://www.tv-now.com/dvs/sunday2.txt
<http://www.tv-now.com/dvs/sunday3.txt>
http://www.tv-now.com/dvs/sunday3.txt and
<http://www.tv-now.com/dvs/sunday4.txt>
http://www.tv-now.com/dvs/sunday4.txt
Tony, the operator of tv-now would like to have your comments and
suggestions. Email him at
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Note the dash between tv and now. Also note that because of the
experimental nature of the project at this time, these listings cannot be
accessed from the main site.
Once you write to Tony, you can receive a daily brief email with the links
for that day's lists, e.g. monday.txt, tuesday.txt etc., or you can just
go online and find them as described above.
None of the other tv listings on-line have even come close to satisfying
the needs of blind or partially sighted users. This could be a real
breakthrough and it is and will continue to be free-of-charge. Thanks for
reading this. Check it out. You will love it.
Catherine
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