[gui-talk] FW: Press Reader

[Lloyd Rasmussen]

This is a reasonable list.  I think nobody has run into this proprietary
reader program yet.

RSS is a method of "syndicating" content on a web site and letting you know
when there are updates.  IE and Firefox have RSS reading functions with
keyboard equivalents.  Microsoft Outlook (not Outlook Express) starting at
version 2007 can display RSS feeds as though they were a mail folder, so you
can launch these notifications from within Outlook.  I haven't tried this
function out yet.

RSS is also a method by which people can get podcasts when new ones come
out.

RSS probably won't help you read your local paper, because it probably is
just displaying updates to the minimal information you already know about.

Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Debbi Williamson
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 10:04 PM
> To: 'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'
> Subject: [gui-talk] FW: Press Reader
> 
> If this list is not the right place to find an answer to the question in
> my
> email of yesterday, can someone tell me where I should go?  I have
> additional questions, as well, and I don't want to keep asking if this is
> not the correct forum.
> 
> In addition to the Pressreader question, would someone want to explain to
> me
> what an RSS feed reader is?  Is that an alternative way of reading>?  The
> newspaper site says something about using an RSS feed reader but I don't
> know what that is, whether such a thing is accessible, whether it will
> allow
> me to read what Pressreader will not, and which one to use.  I am really
> disappointed about this newspaper thing.
> 
> So, again, if this is not the right list for my questions, please,
> someone,
> point me in the right direction.  I am getting no answers from the
> newspaper, itself, the Pressreader customer service folks, and so far, not
> from here.  I don't know where else to go.  Thanks so much for any help.
> See my email below.
> 
> 
>   _____
> 
> From: Debbi Williamson [mailto:debbi107 at atlanticbb.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 6:20 PM
> To: 'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'
> Subject: Press Reader
> 
> 
> The on-line version of our local newspaper has gone to a digital
> electronic
> eddition and requires the use of pressreader which I have downloaded.
> Because I can't seem to read anything, I am guessing it is not JAWS
> accessible?  Because of this new digital eddition, only small portions of
> the newspaper are on the "free" website and very little content is
> available
> through NFB's Newsline.
> 
> Is anyone familiar with pressreader and can you suggest a way to make it
> accessible?
> Thank you.  I am most distressed and disappointed to lose my newspaper
> access!
> 
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