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From: "Jonathan Mosen" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 2:46 PM
Subject: Blind Line Looks to the Future


> Ten years ago, few people would have thought that we'd be able to use the
> Internet to bring the blind community together, that thousands of
broadcasts
> would be available on the Internet at any one time. In fact, ten years
ago,
> the first screen reader for Windows hadn't been released yet. So what does
> the future hold? We invite you to give us a call and suggest where you
think
> technology will have taken us by the year 2012. Hopefully, we'll be around
> to play back the programme ten years from now. Will we have beaten the
> increasing problem of inaccessible appliances? Will everyone have broad
band
> connections? Will the Internet as we know it still be around? Will today's
> familiar screen reader names be a distant and fond memory.
>
> Join us for this discussion on Blind line at 1 Universal time on Monday,
> that's Sunday night at 8 Eastern, 5 Pacific, on ACB Radio Mainstream.
>
> Visit http://www.acbradio.org
> and choose the mainstream link.
>
> Jonathan Mosen
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