[access-uk] Re: the new newspapers site from r n i b
- From: Ari Damoulakis <aridamoulakis@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 20:05:17 +0200
Hi Steve
The bigger format thing is a terrible reason. What about those of us
who do use the smaller ones that can be emailed anyway? Those
obviously won't get larger.
On 4/1/14, john gallagher <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi there excatly how is this better for blind people i ask you and as i keep
> saying you cannot access the site with braille devices. i cannot find the
> computer mags on there yet but as the leaflet says it is only in the
> beginning and things will get better and yes i will miss the email service
> as well. but again it is all to do with saving money. maybe it will mean a
> staff reduction at the rnib but yet the top guy will be given £400 a week
> rise because of the augmentation of it all. we live in a strange world. but
> some expanation would be nice as derek says. and as jackie says what is the
> point in having the too sites all very strange i must say.
>
> do they call this the right to read.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ari Damoulakis <aridamoulakis@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, 1 April 2014 4.19 pm
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: the new newspapers site from r n i b
>
>>
>>
>> Hi Derick
>> As far as I understood the message, they're taking our email service
>> away. This is a nuisance because it was just so easy for me to put the
>> paper on the daisy player, now you have to go to a web site with an
>> illogically-sounding address, log in, click on millions of links just
>> to get to the actual download of whatever you want. Of course I'm not
>> saying its too much effort, but two problems I have is firstly, the
>> email one's much more efficient, and secondly, how do you then know
>> you can go and download, because sometimes the paper or whatever isn't
>> even ready, so you might be checking the site often for nothing.
>> Ari
>>
>> On 4/1/14, Derek Hornby <derek.hornbyUk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hi Gordon
>> > The main issue is though, why the need for change.
>> > And will email servcie stay as now.
>> >
>> > Derek
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>> > Of
>> > Gordon Keen
>> > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 2.23 PM
>> > To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Subject: [access-uk] Re: the new newspapers site from r n i b
>> >
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > As Steve says it's fine, works well in safari with voiceover on the mac
>> > book
>> > but here's the rub$far fewer titles to choose from and not divided in
>> > to
>> > daily, weekly and monthly publications.
>> > Here's the list from the web page:
>> >
>> > Titles
>> > Belfast Telegraph
>> > Birmingham Mail
>> > City AM
>> > Eastern Daily Press
>> > Edinburgh Evening News
>> > Evening Express
>> > Evening Gazette
>> > Grimsby Telegraph
>> > Hull Daily Mail
>> > International New York Times
>> > MONEYWEEK
>> > Oxford Mail
>> > Pensions Expert
>> > Southern Daily Echo
>> > South Wales Argus
>> > South Wales Echo
>> > Swindon Advertiser
>> > The Bolton News
>> > The Guardian
>> > The Plymouth Herald
>> > Western Mail
>> > Worcester News
>> > Colchester Gazette
>> > Coventry Telegraph
>> > Daily Express
>> > Daily Mail
>> > Daily Mirror
>> > Daily Post
>> > Daily Record
>> > Daily Star
>> > Derby Evening Telegraph
>> > East Anglian Daily Times
>> > Echo
>> > Evening Chronicle
>> > Evening Times
>> > Gloucestershire Echo
>> > Independent i
>> >
>> > Royal National Institute of Blind People--Registered Charity 226227
>> >
>> > On 1 Apr 2014, at 13.18, Steve Nutt <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> 0was Hi,
>> 0was
>> 0was It's fine. You can't do anything without a password so don't worry
>> about
>> 0was it.
>> >
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