In what way has the ARRL not made a good faith effort at
accessibility? (i.e. how do they have "a long way to go"?) They've
certainly done more than most in this regard:

1. QST has been available in a recorded format for ages, even if it's
really, really, really late.

2. They have a text-only Web site, www2.arrl.org, which is nice and
uncluttered and easy to navigate.

3. You can get bulletins and reminders via Email.

4. Contest rules and so on are available on the Web site, may if not
all in either plain text or HTML. The product reviews are PDF's, most
of which are mostly readable. Some technical articles, most notably
the older ones, are not readable and text can't be extracted from
them, probably because they're scanned images saved as PDF, but the
newer articles that were originally electronic anyway can have the
text extracted.

5. The Handbook and Antenna Book, and I think maybe the Repeater
Directory, are available on CDROM, and I daresay they'd be open to
putting out more titles in this format if we asked real nice. Don't
know if they actually would do it, but it can't hurt to ask.


6. Seems to me they've been more than cooperative in making their
materials available to third parties in order that they get recorded
(thinking of Handi-Hams here, mostly). Betcha they'd make stuff
available to the talking book system if someone from there thought
that having it might be worthwhile. Which brings up a thought; I
wonder if we approached publications and asked that they contribute
texts to Bookshare how amenable to this they'd be?

More'n a lot of other organizations would do.
--
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV
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