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Hi Anthony,
My complaint is not that we sometimes need sighted help. All the same, we
should reduce this requirement as much as possible by building more
accessibility in to the process.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Vece" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: Revisiting accessible amateur radio study materials.
> You know what!
>
> I believe that we all need to take responsibility for how accessible
> material is for us.
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> Their is not a thing wrong with asking for someone's assistance.
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> If your presentation is done right, people will help you and they will
> feel
> better about it.
>
> Especially if you let them know how much there help is appreciated.
> 73 De Anthony W2AJV
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 4:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Revisiting accessible amateur radio study materials.
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>
>> Message-Id:
>> <20050116153315.IHZR1992.imf20aec.mail.bellsouth.net@[68.212.104.94]>
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>> n7i wrote:
>> >I actually have no problems providing reasonable proof of
>> >disability to join Handiham. It is an excellent organization.
>> >Like all organizations dealing with those of us who have
>> >disabilities, Handiham staff need to take all reasonable steps to
>> >be accessible to us, including making the membership process as
>> >accessible as possible. This is just a matter of common sense. Why
>> >not join Handiham?
>> Cassette and audio reading are fine for light reading such as a novel,
>> but I've not cared for refernce material in that format since I was a
>> student in the 60's and '70's but it was often the only game in town.
>> I can skim material in braille or electronic formats.
>>
>> Why not join? I don't see with a lot of what they offer I'm getting
>> that much. I know, it's partly my activist bent. I know blind folks
>> who are very active with the organization with their radio camps etc.
>> A couple are good friends of mine. I just don't have a need for what
>> they offer. Part of it is as you said, I think the league leans to
>> heavily upon them for acessibility to materials and then we're not
>> really consulted on how this is done. AGain I site the manual for the
>> piece of radio equipment which they had on cassette. By the time I
>> went through any hoops to join and finally got the cassette manual
>> back I'd have already found out the info I really wanted about setting
>> up the equipment which I bought for less than a hundred bucks at a
>> hamfest <grin>.
>>
>> TO me their first option for accessible materials should be machine
>> readable with cassette as the second choice offering. wHen I was a
>> student I much preferred braille to tapes, then mostly 7 inch reels
>> btw. FOr the latest tOm Clancy novel an audio only edition is fine
>> but for anything which is intended as a reference work tapes are an
>> inferior method of accessing information.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Richard Webb
>>
>> Electric Spider Productions
>> "They that can give up
>> essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
>> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>>
>> --- Benjamin Franklin, NOvember 1755 from the
>> Historical review of Pennsylvania
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