David,

Thank you very much and I appreciate your response. I use a Mac, but I suspect I'll have just as much success.

73
Scott/N3BYY

On Jan 3, 2012, at 1:01 PM, David thurmond wrote:

> Scott,
> 
> Concerning your question about the CD versions of the ARRL
> publications, I got the amateur radio handbook with the CD and it
> works great with Jaws.  The book is divided into individual PDF files
> per chapter and seems to be fully accessible, navigable, and
> searchable with the most recent version of the Adobe reader and Jaws
> for Windows 9 or 10.  If you have an older version of Jaws or an older
> version of Adobe, you might have to upgrade, but it is worth a try.
> 
> Of course, you are going to miss out a bit on schematics and such if
> you are completely blind, but the  book should still contain them, and
> even captions are converted to text, so you do not miss out
> completely.
> 
> I have not bought the antenna book, but I would presume that recent
> versions would be equally accessible.
> 
> Unfortunately, there are lots of interesting-sounding articles on the
> ARRL web site from way back that are not accessible at all.  But the
> CDs included with the books are terrific.
> 
> 73,
> 
> David Thurmond, KK4ADV