[access-uk] Re: Dab tunors and DAB personal radio suggestions please

Hi Andy,

On Christmas Eve my wife and I went out to buy her a DAB Radio. We went to Comet and Curry's. Comet proved to have the biggest range and we were really spoilt for choice. We were able to examine and listen to them and, after leaving the store and drawing a blank at Curry's, we returned and my wife chose the Pure Elan model.

All of the radios seemed to have about the same level of accessibility and, as far as I know, there are no models available at present using synthesised speech to read the screen. On the Elan press buttons are used for all the functions and setting the eight presets seems very easy to do. Once the stations available have been scanned they are listed alpha numerically. Plus and minus buttons are used to cycle backwards and forwards through the list. The name of the station comes up on the screen and a Select button is used to turn it on. This of course is the main drawback. If you can't read the screen there is no way of knowing which station is being shown, other than remembering their position and counting the number of times you press the plus or minus buttons.

There are quite a few other features available, all requiring vision but I doubt if my wife will be using any of these. She will probably only be listening to a few favourite stations and these can all be stored in pre-sets when she eventually gets round to it.

Hope this is of some help.

Best.

Robert.

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