Thanks for one of the more thoughtful messages. I will
respond to a few points.
Lloyd Rasmussen writes:
> A lot more research and negotiation has to be done before anyone would 
> want
> to file any sort of lawsuit against a magazine publisher.
> 
> I am pretty sure that ARRL said they also would be using Zimio as their
> platform.  On December 17, Patrick Tyce sent us a link to a page out of
> World Radio Magazine on the Zimio site.  Going to the page with 
> Window-Eyes
> and either Internet Explorer or FireFox shows a bunch of links and no
> article text.  Some of the links and the help text indicate that they have
> some iOS apps; I have no idea whether or not they are accessible.
> 
> But Martin McCormik reported in December that he could read the sample 
> page
> using good old Lynnx.  I downloaded the page and found that it is
> accompanied by a lot of JavaScript.  But the article text is also 
> contained
> within a <noscript> section in the main HTML file, which explains why Lynx
> could read it.

	In a perfect world, we could all just walk up to
something and use it but we have the world we live in so we've
got to figure out how to make it work which, sometimes, means
finding the alternate ways to skin the proverbial cat.

	I will be 61 years old in a bit less than 5 months so I
know what life was like 40 years ago. "QST" came in a cardboard
box through my regional lending library. I even worked at that
library for a few Summers while in college and then full-time
between 1974 and 76 and I really don't remember if those boxes
came from Science for the Blind or if we duplicated the tapes
and sent them out from Oklahoma City, but I think the library
just signed us up and Science for the blind shipped the tapes.

	Anyway, there were usually two 7-inch reels of tape in
the box and the kicker, here, is that they were usually 6 to 7
months out of date. The ARRL staff members read the articles on
to the tapes and then they were duplicated at which point a lot
of technical difficulty was introduced as dust, wear on the
tape's oxide coating and rough handling by users took their toll
on the sound quality.

	An old geezer routine on "Saturday Night Live" used to
describe how rotten things were and ended each description with
"That's the way things were and we liked it!"

	I'm not trying to pull that one, but I recently
downloaded the February "QST" from bard during the last few days
of February. No, it's not the same time everybody else gets it,
but it beats the daylights out of 7 months and wearing out the
Volume pot trying to keep up with the level changes.

	If the digital form of "QST" turns out to be accessible,
how are we going to follow the circuits described. The present
NLS reading of "QST" features descriptions of the schematics of
projects submitted by amateurs. I usually am not interested in
building these projects, but I have been known to read parts of
those descriptions to find out how to connect a certain IC or
other important details. If the day comes when we can read these
articles on our computers, I bet good money those portions will
not be easy to get at without help.

	Negotiation and discussion will accomplish far more than
a screaming lawyer fest which would tick off the loosers and
probably not produce any real winners.

	I know of situations where certain web sites are just
horrible to access using assistive technology yet the argument
is that they followed all the accessibility guidelines and they
are telling the truth, but they didn't work with anybody so
the end result is useless or darn close to useless.

	My few experiences with the ARRL have been positive and
I bet we will end up with something wonderful if we are calm and
deliberative and do not become litigious. That is an adjective
which means to resort to legal  activity every time one is
unhappy.