[misc.handicap] Radio Reading Service

Ted.Young@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Ted Young) (10/26/90)

Index Number: 11292

In a message Walter Siren said:

"Well, wake up, and move to New Orleans.  We have our reading
service on a regular fm channel in the public radio part of the fm
broadcast band.  We have no bleed over, and you can pick it up on a
regular fm radio.  It is really nice.

Walter, excuse me for jumping in here but somewhere I read about a
radio service for the blind in Europe which sends a full days news
and other general information to home computers so that the
receiving party can pick out what he or she wants from the various
newspapers, etc.  That's my idea of the best system.  Next to that
one I like yours in New Orleans.  Ted

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Walter.Siren@p18.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.org (Walter Siren) (10/26/90)

Index Number: 11306

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 TY> Walter, excuse me for jumping in here but somewhere I read about 
 TY> a radio service
 TY> for the blind in Europe which sends a full days news and other 
 TY> general
 TY> information to home computers so that the receiving party can 
 TY> pick out what he
 TY> or she wants from the various newspapers, etc.  That's my idea of 
 TY> the best
 TY> system.  Next to that one I like yours in New Orleans.

I think that would be great also, but there probably are too few of
us blinks who know how to opperate a computer. Now, you could say,
that they should learn, but unfortunately I think that a majority
of blind people probably or elderly, and that would put them at a
disadvantage.  It would be nice to have both.  Naturally it would
be better if we could control what we want to read.

               Walter 

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