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You know, you're right.  Even sighted people do things with sighted help.

Tom


Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Darrell Shandrow wrote:

> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:35:46 -0700
> From: Darrell Shandrow <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Blind-Hams For blind ham radio operators
>     <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: accessible materials
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> I guess not having this material doesn't bother me as much because I know
> that, as a blind person, I'm not going to be able to reasonable expect to
> independently build any of these projects.  I'm ultimately going to be
> working with one or more sighted hams on these anyway, so their
> accessibility isn't as important to me.  I'm sure you're going to tell me
> how I'm wrong, how you've done lots of things without need of any sighted
> help.  I hope that is the case.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 6:01 PM
> Subject: Re: accessible materials
>
>
> > Gary, that sounds like an excellent idea.  While I do find study materials
> > generally workable as they are there is essentially nothing out there.  It
> > is a
> > shame that we get QST on tape but have no way to look at advertising or to
> > build
> > the projects in there.  Those are the kind of materials which really need
> > to be
> > made accessible but the question on them is one of hobby work so they stay
> > locked away from blind folks.  I would be glad to do what I can to help
> > with
> > such a project.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
> > Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> > web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>

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