If you have any features you'd like included in this radio please make sure you send your messages to sam at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not to me. Thanks, Steve.
From: "Sam Ward" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike's Mess List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi there folks, So often when we buy a portable radio and CD player these days, we find that we can only use some of the options that are available and the others require at least some vision to use. Well, a friend of mine is in a rather unique position, and here's what he writes. Hi Sam, Right now, I'd like to tell you about a couple projects I'm involved in. The Best Buy electronics retail chain is teaming up with an electronics manufacturer to offer a blind-friendly radio. It's just in the planning stages right now. I have a contact who is involved in the talks between Best Buy and the manufacturer. My friend would like to know the top ten things we as blind persons would like to see in a radio. The first thing I said was to have a num pad on the remote so we could put in a frequency. I'd also like to see a button that returns all the menus and mode buttons to some pre-determined default settings so we wouldn't get lost in the menus and sub menus. If the unit is going to have a multi-cd changer, I'd like it to give an audible signal when the cd tray I select is empty rather than automatically finding the next loaded one. As you know, I have exactly two blind friends. But you seem to know quite a few folks, one way or another. Would you mind asking as many people as you can what they'd like to see in a blind-friendly radio and then send the information to me? I will pass it along to my friend and we will actually have some say in the design and features set rather than having the sighted design it for us, not knowing at all what we need or what would be helpful. If you're on any blindness-related lists where the question would be appropriate, feel free to post the question there and forward the info to me. Regards Steve Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windows Live Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: steve1963 Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
