Re: Earl vs. NFB Newsline

2013-04-04 Thread shane . johnson
lto: > vip...@googlegroups.com ] On Behalf > Of Alan Lemly > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 12:10 AM > To: vip...@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: Earl vs. NFB Newsline > > Well, I finally got smart and realized that since there is an app out > there > for just about e

RE: Earl vs. NFB Newsline

2013-04-04 Thread Neal Ewers
s.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Lemly Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 12:10 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Earl vs. NFB Newsline Well, I finally got smart and realized that since there is an app out there for just about everything, surely my local newspaper had one.

Re: Earl vs. NFB Newsline

2013-04-04 Thread Philip M Kragnes
: 612-626-9654 E: p...@umn.edu T: @PKragnes W: http://cap.umn.edu W: http://accessibility.umn.edu - Original Message - From: Will To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 9:02 AM Subject: Re: Earl vs. NFB Newsline i wish though you could flick to go

RE: Earl vs. NFB Newsline

2013-04-04 Thread Alan Lemly
ssage- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 4:31 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Earl vs. NFB Newsline That could be what I'm noticing with the Statesman. My sighted wife usually re

Re: Earl vs. NFB Newsline

2013-04-03 Thread Donald L. Roberts
Raul, I guess that my biggest gripe is that various articles which appear in my local paper are not carried by NFB Newsline. Also, the headings are quite different, amking something more difficult to find quickly. Don Roberts On 4/3/2013 10:36 AM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: Hello Don. What do yo

Re: Earl vs. NFB Newsline

2013-04-03 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
age- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Raul A. Gallegos > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 1:32 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Earl vs. NFB Newsline > > Hi there. One thing I have noticed with the Houston Chronicl

RE: Earl vs. NFB Newsline

2013-04-03 Thread Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D.
legroups.com Subject: Re: Earl vs. NFB Newsline Hi there. One thing I have noticed with the Houston Chronicle and with the various AP newspapers is that they are updated regularly and newsline reflects those changes daily. So for example if I start reading today's newspaper and it shows me 10

Re: Earl vs. NFB Newsline

2013-04-03 Thread Christopher Chaltain
That could be what I'm noticing with the Statesman. My sighted wife usually reads the paper in the morning, and when she points out an article to me, I'll go try to find it in Newsline, and I'll frequently not find it there. On 04/03/2013 01:32 PM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: Hi there. One thing

Re: Earl vs. NFB Newsline

2013-04-03 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
Hi there. One thing I have noticed with the Houston Chronicle and with the various AP newspapers is that they are updated regularly and newsline reflects those changes daily. So for example if I start reading today's newspaper and it shows me 10 local news articles, then I read it later on this

Re: Earl vs. NFB Newsline

2013-04-03 Thread Christopher Chaltain
I've noticed that with the Austin American Statesman, the number of articles in NFB Newsline is just a subset of the articles in the actual paper. I seem to recall hearing that these papers, the Statesman being one of the examples, changes the format of their digital markup fairly regularly so

Re: Earl vs. NFB Newsline

2013-04-03 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
Hello Don. What do you find are some of the differences between your local newspaper in reality versus what NFB newsline has to offer? Also just so you know, your message came through at the end of the message you reply to instead of on top. Most people prefer that replies go on top to make them

Re: Earl vs. NFB Newsline

2013-04-03 Thread Donald L. Roberts
On April 2, Alan Lemly wrote: I know that Earl uses some voice-activated commands and that is different from the NFB Newsline app but I'm curious why anyone would pay for its subscription service. I for one will do so because NFB Newsline's representation of some newspapers is little mor

Re: Earl vs. NFB Newsline

2013-04-03 Thread Will
> Alan Lemly > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 3:09 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Earl vs. NFB Newsline > > I know that Earl uses some voice-activated commands and that is different > from the NFB Newsline app but I'm curious why anyone would pay for its >

RE: Earl vs. NFB Newsline

2013-04-03 Thread Neal Ewers
@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Lemly Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 3:09 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Earl vs. NFB Newsline I know that Earl uses some voice-activated commands and that is different from the NFB Newsline app but I'm curious why a

Earl vs. NFB Newsline

2013-04-03 Thread Alan Lemly
I know that Earl uses some voice-activated commands and that is different from the NFB Newsline app but I'm curious why anyone would pay for its subscription service. I would think that what's available digitally from most newspapers is going to be pretty fixed and that each external service gettin