Hi all,
I wanted to get this out as soon as I could, found out about this portable internet radio yesterday!
It's made by a company in the UK called Acoustic Energy, and the US distributor is the C-crane Company from California.
I called C-Crane and they told me it lives up it's billing, but here's the problem, and this is where all of the blind come in.
This is a portable radio that if you have a wifi connection, or a broadband connection, you can listen to over 10000 internet radio stations and audio feeds.
It looks like a regular radio.
We need to tell them to either
1.  put a voice chip in it to make it accessible or
2.  put the Microsoft SAPI voice in it to make it accessible.
It's called the wifi radio.
C-Crane says they've ben getting calls by blind folks to make it accessible, but they can't do any thing, because they don't namufacture the radio.
If you want to know more about the radio, check out



http://www.acoustic-energy.co.uk/product_range/wifi_radio/WiFi.asp



Folks, it's litterally, a portable internet radio.
Now, if you want to contact them and work with them on this, check out their contact page at



http://www.acoustic-energy.co.uk/Contact_Details.asp



What we need to tell them is this.
We know the radio is available, but we are blind and can't access the radio.
Please put either a voice chip in the radio, or, put software in the radio such as the Microsoft SAPI voice in it.
This way, the blind person could hear the list of stations that comes up, and then, select the station or feed they want.
So, folks, I just wanted to make all of us aware of this product.
take care,
Harry


    VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List.
Archived on the World Wide Web at
    http://listserv.icors.org/archives/vicug-l.html
    Signoff: [log in to unmask]
    Subscribe: [log in to unmask]