Hi Howard,
I am involved with some private correspondence with someone from the League
at this moment. It has come about due to the accessibility thread I started
yesterday. I have volunteered to assist the League in this effort. We
shall see what comes of this. I am cautiously optimistic.
Publishing copyrighted material to icanworkthisthing.com probably isn't the
best way to go about accessibility. It is one thing to publish manuals to
radios and other hardware; what good are they without possession of the
actual hardware? I can imagine that the League and other publishers of
study and other ham related materials would take strong exception to our
openly publishing these in such a way that everyone, regardless of whether
or not they have a disability, could freely download and copy them. No.
This would certainly serve to hurt our cause and I could not support doing
this without explicit, written permission from the authors or publishers.
Bookshare would be a much better, legal and safer distribution for these
scanned materials. This is the reason for the existence of Bookshare, why
don't we all use it?
73
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: Revisiting accessible amateur radio study materials.
> Let's stop bitching and start doing. If we can find the materials, scan
> them, get a couple of volunteers to clean up the scans, especially the
> formulas, and post them to I Can Work This Thing.com, we are done.
> Might be a project that we could find sighted volunteers from the list or
> from a club to assist with. It would take an obcessive cumpulsive ham to
> do it, and we know no hams would ever fit that diagnossis, right?
>
> If the new exams are available on-line, why not copy and paste them in to
> a
> document, or just send the URL to the list.
>
> If we want them to make an accessible world for us, we will have to teach
> them how to do it. They really don't know and it is unrealistic to expect
> them to know.
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