[access-uk] Re: Magazines
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:41:32 -0000
The subject of the virtues of Braille and it's being a 'comfort zone' for some,
is interesting. Don't know if there's much chance of it having a life on
Vi-gen,
but people's feelings around hard copy vs. refeshable is interesting.
I have often felt that if a Braille notetaker or portable display was, as it
were,
to virtually fall into my lap, I wouldn't object. I only lived in such luxury
for
a year or two when I was working, since the Braillelite was swiped off me.
Cheers,
From Ray
I can be contacted off-list at:
mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
Jackie Cairns
Ray, I prefer all the Scottish Braille Press magazines, mainly for their
content
as much as anything else. I get all four of them: the Sporting Record,
Spectrum,
Home Help and Madam. But then I get a lot of RNIB mags too, all in Braille,
because I prefer reading shorter articles and browsing bits and pieces than
getting into longer books these days. That's more to do with concentration
through pain than anything else, because I used to read a lot more than I do
now.
But I agree there is so much more online now that some of what is printed, by
the time it reaches your fingers, is outdated. And, for those who like Email
and
speech, TNAUK cover a wide variety of publications, but I don't subscribe to
these
as I like my Braille to be honest, and it takes me away from sitting at the
computer all the time. And while I use my display, and would hate to be without
it, there isn't a substitute for getting ripped into a Braille mag and flicking
through it quickly.
Jackie
----- Original Message -----
From: Ray's Home
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 7:56 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Unsubbing And Access IT
I'm the wrong person to ask about RNIB, or Scotish Braille Press
publications
for that matter. They seem on the pricey side to me, but do bear in mind much
of
the cost of any mag. is up-front, in actually producing the copy, though you'd
have thought Brailling must cost a fair bit.
I think particularly here on this sort of list, we must remember that likely
most of us now are getting info through websites, email lists, digests, podcasts
and the like. I simply wouldn't look to RNIB for technical matter now.
I'm sure the same goes more and more for other areas of interest, like
books,
politics, music and so on. No end of magazines and newspapers you can subscribe
to on-line. and many do.
If only a way of bringing down the cost of ownership of Braille displays
could
be put in place, then those who prefer Braille over speech access could be
satisfied by web-based distribution.
Cheers,
From Ray
I can be contacted off-list at:
mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
I stopped subscribing to it, because the export price became very
expensive,
and they took lots of articles from Access World, which is free. The other
thing I
can't understand is why RNIB charges me the same price for braille as for
email, I
could sort of understand that with braille it's the cost of paper and stuff, but
nearly 30 pounds a year, and quite a thin magazine, I just stopped. I prefer
Infotech magazine, because you can of course listen to a sort of review of the
product. Are there any other good technology newsletters around? There used to
be
one called wyfiwyg, but it's also stopped.
Ari
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