Hi there. This is Brent. I've been listening on the list for awhile, but 
haven't posted much. I've been a technician licensed ham for a long time, 
but the repeater where I live isn't really within HT transmit range, but 
that's another subject. On this accessibility of QST, I hope something good 
comes out of it. I did get an ARRL membership one year awhile ago, but took 
the blind one with the discount, just because I thought I wouldn't want to 
do that much scanning, and magazines don't come out of the OCR that well at 
times. I don't believe it was descrimination or anything like that, they 
offered this one for blind people who were fine with going without QST 
and/or CQ magazine, but you could take the full package if you wanted it. If 
it helps any, I heard that the platform these two amateur radio publications 
were going to go with is called Zinio. I'm not sure on how much the 
accessibility is up to the ARRL and how much is up to Zinio's technology. I 
wish I could find a free publication on there to try out and see what Jaws 
will do.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: Regarding Digital QST Accessibility


>    Very well said, Mike.
>
> My wife and I have a family membrership to the ARRL, but have the 
> discounted
> rate because we don't take QST.
>
> Now, with the digital possibility, things will probably change, and we all
> have to make the League aware of our needs, constraints, etc., when it 
> comes
> to such digital material.
>
> Again, let's try to work within the existing system to make positive 
> things
> happen which, of course, is theoretically possible.
>
> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 6:21 PM
> Subject: Regarding Digital QST Accessibility
>
>
>> Before we burn down the neighborhood with this bonfire, let's at least
>> roast the hotdog.
>>
>> The question of how many of us are ARRL members is quite relevant to
>> this discussion, but I don't see people lining up to answer it.
>>
>> I am a member on the family rate with my wife, K5KKD. Thus, we receive
>> one issue of QST each month, usually from 6 to 8 weeks ahead of the
>> NLS download or cassette.
>>
>> Those of us who are ARRL members must, by all means, write to the
>> members of the ARRL Board of Directors, to tell them that as paying
>> members, we expect the digital edition to be accessible to us when it
>> is rolled out. We should also volunteer to work with them to make this
>> happen.
>>
>> While I suspect he has little to do with the digital edition directly,
>> a copy of our letters should also be sent to QST Editor Steve Ford,
>> just to let him know we are out here, and that we are serious readers.
>>
>>
>>
>> Mike Duke, K5XU
>> American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs
>>
>