Hi.

If anyone has recommendations of good national news sites for this
person, please let me know.

Thanks,

Ray Campbell, Help Desk Technician
Adaptive Technology Center
Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
1850 W. Roosevelt Road
Chicago, IL  60608
312-997-3651 (Voice/Relay) or
888-825-0080 (voice/Relay)
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From: G F Mueden [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 8:34 AM
To: helpdesk
Subject: Easy to read online news sources for the partially sighted

 

Please be so kind as to pass this on to the persons who work swith your
low vision clients.  I think they may have the answer.    I am searching
for easy to read online news sources and would appreciate their help. 

Journalism's migration from paper to the Internet has carried over old
habits of format that are unsuitable to the computer screen, making some
online newspapers confusing and hard to read. Some do it better than
others. The NYTimes and Reuters do well by providing the headlines with
links to the articles. It is a matter of "scroll down" vs. "down up
across down up across down up across, etc."    

I am not talking about mousing; I am taliking about eye movement.   It
is easier for me and more effective to keep my eyes ona small part of
the screen and have the news scroll to it than have my eyes search the
screen for things that interest me.   It is like the old joke punch
line:  "You tell that dog to come 'round to where my eyes is restin".

The NYTimes does it my way by every morning emailing me the headlines
with a short paragraph for each, sorted by category (Nat'l, Business,
Arts, etc). When I click in a headline it takes me to the story.. Not
perfect, because they select only what they think are the top stories,
but they do very well and it is better than fumbling around in a make
believe paper. They put it all in one column with ads on the right. 

Reuters does it almost as well. They email me a set of headlines twice a
day, single spaced, all on the screen at once, allowing for quick
decisions as to which to read. Then, down below, they do it again, but
with a paragraph. One column plus some goodies like links to photos,
often very good. 

I would like to know of others who do better. Where should I be looking?


Is there a public message board serving the partially sighted where this
could be posted? How can I reach the support groups?

Who is working on this, industry committees? 

Be of good cheer, ===gm=== 

G F Mueden NY NY 212-222-8751 [log in to unmask] 

 

 


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