[gui-talk] Looking for Blind Person in Broadcasting

[Brian Blair]

Jan,

Have you contacted Google tech support about this automation?  Perhaps they 
know of someone who is successfuly using this, though the description of it 
on their website sounds pretty speech unfriendly.  My employer in the late 
1990s was looking at the previous generation of the Google Automation system 
at the time it was Scott Studios, and we believed it to be accessible with 
speech.  Sorry I don't know whether the Google Automation would be usable, 
and the user forum didn't seem to have any helpful information.

Our group of three radio stations in Alaska is using an automation system 
called Simian produced by Broadcast Software International 
http://www.bsiusa.com.  This system is very accessible with the use of JAWS 
scripts, and can also be used without scripts, though the scripts do greatly 
enhance operator capabilities.

I have also heard of other broadcast automation systems such as Audio Vault 
which have been used successfuly by blind broadcasters.

Brian Blair
http://www.polarblairs.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David B Andrews (by way of David Andrews<dandrews at visi.com>)" 
<David.B.Andrews at state.mn.us>
To: <david.andrews at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 10:34
Subject: [gui-talk] Looking for Blind Person in Broadcasting


> >>> Janice Bailey 12/2/2008 11:52 AM >>>   jan.bailey at state.mn.us
>
> I have a client who has a good opportunity to work for a radio station as 
> an announcer. They use the Google Radio Automation system with a touch 
> screen. The question is, could this be done with a keyboard? Our 
> technology person is going out with me to look at this situation, but I'm 
> wondering if anyone out there has anyone who is totally blind working at a 
> radio station with automated equipment. Some other terms given to me were 
> SS 32 and D mark. My client needs to do radio announcing, read the news, 
> put in the commercials, or start them, not create them, and do some live 
> broadcasting on mike. They definitely will hire him if the job could be 
> made accessible.
>
> Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Jan Bailey
> State Services for the Blind
> Rochester, Minnesota 55904
> phone: 507-280-5563 or 1-800-657-3836
> jan.bailey at state.mn.us
>
>
>
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