I don't have any way of knowing for sure. You may be right, considering the
large number of VHF-only licensees. But just as with the sighted
population, and perhaps more so, computers compete for our attention,
especially among young people.
Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home: http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work: http://www.loc.gov/nls
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard, W A 9 Y B W [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 6:27 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Regarding Digital QST Accessibility
>
> Lloyd,
>
> Do you really think there are only 1200 or so blind hams today given that
> the total number of hams in the United States is now around 750,000 up
> from
> 150,000 or so 40 or 50 years ago?
>
> I would think this number would be low.
>
> 73's
>
> Howard #3
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:08 PM
> Subject: Re: Regarding Digital QST Accessibility
>
>
> >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.
> >
> > So I loaded it into Firefox, adjusted it so that JavaScript was
> disabled,
> > reloaded the page with F5, and the text was found in the middle of the
> > other
> > links. I remember that there was a "noscript" plug-in for FireFox, but
> > that
> > FireFox has started disabling many plug-ins. I expect there is a way to
> > disable JavaScript for this site while not disabling it everywhere else.
> > You can't use the main Facebook site with JavaScript disabled, for
> > example.
> > Some of you would say that's a good thing.
> >
> > Back when the Braille Technical Press was being published, Bob Gunderson
> > estimated that there were 1,200 blind hams in the U.S. I suppose I
> could
> > find out how many people currently get NLS's version of QST. I think
> that
> > the number of blind hams is in the same order of magnitude as it was 50
> > years ago.
> >
> > Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
> > Home: http://lras.home.sprynet.com
> > Work: http://www.loc.gov/nls
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