Pat,
I've sure never seen anything like that. There are some component
discriptions in Bill gerrey's series "From Paper to Project" in the
Smith-Kettlewell Technical file, but the articles are discriptions of how to
build particular devices, so the component discriptions are not
independantly sortable.

Wow, there are so many different types of everything it'd be a real bucket
of worms.

Then again, soon enough everything will be bloody surface mount, and you
won't be able to tell them apart. Everything is a square or rectangular
plastic or ceramic block with tiny dots on it's lower edges.

A day at a ham flea market would be worth months of reading text
discriptions even if they existed.

I ma;ybe be interested in providing some discription trial text, but as
for organizing and hosting it, way beyond my capabilities.

good luck
Tom Fowle WA6IVG

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 07:59:45AM -0500, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hello, all -
> 
> Been a while since I posted.  I'm looking for a web resource that describes
> common electronic components in a way that would be useful to blind
> students.  When teaching in person I can do a show and tell, like Gordon
> West used to do at Handiham California Radio Camp, but these days most
> people are going to head down the self-study route and even if they are able
> to get to a local class it is likely the presentation will be a PowerPoint
> and the presenter may not know how to describe.  It would be great to locate
> some on line resources that explained things like resistors, capacitors, and
> inductors in a more blind-friendly way.  Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 73 - Pat
> 
> Patrick Tice
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