Hi Lou,

You seem to have a computer with a screen reader.  You could thus ultimately
access these files.  If they were provided in DAISY format you could use
Victor Reader Soft as provided by Bookshare.  You could also get another
blind person to help you make this conversion.  I know that all
accessibility efforts are going to run in to some problems and that nothing
is ever perfect.  I am only insisting that a better, more significant effort
be made.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: Revisiting accessible amateur radio study materials.


> Hi.
>
> Other than sitting at work looking through the files on agency equipment
> and/or software, I don't have any such way to read such files.  I'm in
> agreement with Butch on this one.
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
> At 11:13 PM 1/15/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>>Hi Butch,
>>
>>As you know, back translation of Braille is not always foolproof and it is
>>highly unlikely that the sighted would bother trying this, especially
>>since
>>such files would still be missing such features as diagrams.
>>
>>On the other hand, we can read these BRF files using a lot of methods:
>>Braille displays, braille note taking devices, portable reading devices
>>like
>>Book Port and even software such as K1000 and OpenBook!
>>
>>DAISY would also be another good format.
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 10:55 PM
>>Subject: Re: Revisiting accessible amateur radio study materials.
>>
>>
>> > I'll have to give this some thought, but I'm not in favor of brf
>> > formats.
>> > I don't have a braille device nor do I have such software as far as I
>> > know.  If a sighted person really wanted to copy this stuff, couldn't
>> > they
>> > get the back conversion software as easy as I can?
>> > Aren't the question pools available in plain text?  They use to be when
>> > I
>> > got my extra.
>> > 73s
>> > Butch Bussen
>> > wa0vjr
>
> Louis Kim Kline
> A.R.S. K2LKK
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