Afternoon Flor,
Thank you for your fairly detailed post of The Irish Times accessibility
and what you get for your buck!
Now do you knnow whilst on the subject) if the digital Irish Times is
accessible with Windows 7 or indeed any Windows?
From our general experience with The hard copy 'Times' think Saturday's
edition is really a look back at the week's news as I think RNIB don't
produce it the weekends.
Now I'll be in possession of a netbook shortly hopefully so may have
access to possibly 20 articles gratis also, smile.
Tony Sweeney.
On 11/04/2016 17:33, Flor Lynch wrote:
Hi Tony, Joe, Eleanor and list:
I’m subscribed to the RNIB Talking Newspaper Service. (Usual RNIB contact number.) I pay the equivalent of £39 annually for four magazines, including the Irish Times edition. (It is an edited version. Probably somewhere between a quarter and a half of the full daily newspaper. It doesn’t include the various Supplements, which are available via Irish Times digital subscriptions.) In addition to the above, I have password-controlled download access to any of the TN publications RNIB distribute. (These Include The Lancet, Nature, New Scientist, The Guardian (not the online edition that we ‘know and love’); and several other more regional publications if one wants them.
The free iPhone offer is limited to the reading of twenty articles per week, in much the same way that one is limited to reading ten articles per seven days on one’s individual computer. There is a lot of stuff between those that doesn’t make it into the RNIB (or edited) organ which they are allowed to redistribute.
So, let’s say that you own both a computer and an iPhone. (There may also be an Android edition; or at least, there should be one.) But for those who have both a smartphone and a PC, they could have thirty Irish Times articles per week for free. (This to my mind, could cover several of the behind-the-headlines stories and other opinion pieces that one may be interested in.)
To summarise on the RNIB ‘talking newspapers’, (delivered predominantly by email now), I would say that best value is got by subscribing to more than one.
*From:* Tony Sweeney <mailto:tonymsweeney@xxxxxxxxx>
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As a matter of interest are you using Talkback?
I was only commenting re Windows access just to clarify now.
Tony Sweeney.
On 11/04/2016 12:13, Eleanor burke wrote:
I access Irish Times newspaper on my iPhone with no difficulty whatsoever.
On 11 Apr 2016, at 11:25, Tony Sweeney <tonymsweeney@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:tonymsweeney@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
The digitall Irish Times is it that may not be accessible I guess.
There is discussion over on the access UK list re the RNIB talking newspapers but that is a different matter.
I could be wron but think It's only about 50 GBP PA for the service.
Cheers,
Tony.
On 11/04/2016 11:13, Joe Bollard (Redacted sender EVERTON274 for DMARC) wrote:thanks tony, i was speaking with a friend over the weekend and he doesn't think it is too accessible, however he is going to come back to me on it, many thanks for your interest, god bless, travel safely, joe.
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