Hi Susan
I had forgotten about you UK people up the North.when referring to the BBC
iPlayer. Of course you would get it. I have some vision and I have to
say
in terms of colour contrast the iPlayer is excellent and very easy to get
around. I do not use JAWS but I would think it would work very well with
JAWS as the BBC site is very good when it comes to Accessability. With
regard to your other query re D V D's and audio description. Are you
aware
that you can rent audio described videos from the RNIB? I think you pay a
similar price to rent them as people do in the shops. You could e-mail
cservices@xxxxxxxxxxx or you could telephone their customer services.
Unfortunately I do not know that telephone number but you would get it via
the 195 Directory if you ask for RNIB Peterborough. Hope this information
is of some help. Incidentally you can also purchase the audio described D
V
Ds from the RNIB but maybe you do not want to do that.
Eleanor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Curry" <SusanCurry@xxxxxxx>
To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 9:17 PM
Subject: [vip_students] Re: bbc i player
hi Eleanor,
we pay a TV licence as we are up here in the north of ireland, but tell
me
is it very jaws friendly?
we joined the tesco DVD rental but even though we selected DVD's from the
audio description list the DVD's were arriving but weren't audio
described.
we don't have a DVD rental shop near us or we might have went there. I
believe Amazon rents out DVD's also but don't know if they are audio
described.
Susan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 7:08 PM
Subject: [vip_students] Re: bbc i player
> It can be downloaded and thereafter subsequent programmes of interest
can
> be
> downloaded and played within a 30 day period. However, as we have
> discussed
> this is an option only available to those who have paid a TV liscence
> to
> the
> BBC, which excludes (to the best of my knowledged and I stand
> corrected)
> those living in Irish Republic. However, as discussed also, the radio
> programmes can however be listened to via the iPlayer on-line within
> Ireland. Some other I T buff like Flor might know more about
downloading
> the radio programmes via iTunes or on to an iPod. I have not got that
far
> in my technology yet.
>
> Eleanor
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Susan Curry" <SusanCurry@xxxxxxx>
> To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 6:37 PM
> Subject: [vip_students] Re: bbc i player
>
>
>> hi eleanor
>>
>> is it a program that you download from the internet on to your
computer?
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 10:18 PM
>> Subject: [vip_students] Re: bbc i player
>>
>>
>> > Susan does this help?
>> > BBC iPlayer is the easy-to-use service that lets you access
television
>> > programmes via your PC. It offers seven-day catch-up television and
now
>> > also
>> > incorporates radio 'listen again' and live streaming.
>> > The TV programmes are free for UK licence fee payers, at high
>> > quality
> and
>> > with no advertising. Once you have downloaded a programme to your
> computer
>> > you have 30 days within which to start watching and seven days to
>> > finish
>> > watching it.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Eleanor
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Susan Curry" <SusanCurry@xxxxxxx>
>> > To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 10:00 PM
>> > Subject: [vip_students] bbc i player
>> >
>> >
>> >> hi folks,
>> >>
>> >> forgive my ignorance, but what's a bbc I player?
>> >> best wishes
>> >>
>> >> Susan
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
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