NFBNewsline®
In 1995, Dr. Kenneth Jernigan, one of the great leaders of the National Federation of the Blind, brought a long-standing dream to fruition. For years, he and others had been trying to find a solution to the problem of blind people having complete and total access to local and national newspapers. Up until this point, blind people had relied on readers and radio reading Services to communicate the printed word to them. Now, they would have full and selective access to the entire text of the newspaper, without editorial comment. Dr. Jernigan's dream had become reality, and this reality is NFBNewsline®.
NFBNewsline® can be accessed by any blind person, using only their standard touch tone telephone. It allows readers to enjoy the full newspaper through the use of a realistic sounding computer synthesized voice. NFBNewsline® is a constant service, so the reader can access it whenever they wish. The reader can use the buttons on their phone to search through articles in the paper, or they can move through a particular article by sentence or paragraph. They can also take advantage of spelling and search features. The reader can speed up the reading voice, slow it down, or change the sound of the voice to his or her liking.
Currently, NFBNewsline® carries 104 local and national newspapers, including the Washington Post, USA Today, the Denver Post and many more. The Nebraska NFBNewsline® center currently carries the Omaha World Herald and we are pleased to announce the recent addition of the Lincoln Journal Star to our lineup. We are always in communication with other perspective newspapers around the state.
Readers are also able to keep up on the happenings in the blindness community via the Nebraska Information Channel, where they can read bulletins from the NFBN, the Commission for the Blind, the Talking Book Library and other organizations representing the blind. We are excited To announce that magazines are also now a part of NFBNewsline with the Recent addition of the New Yorker and The Economist. We look forward to adding more newspapers and magazines in the weeks and months ahead.
NFBNewsline® is a free service to any subscriber, as long as they are blind or visually impaired, or otherwise unable to read the printed word. If you would like more information on how to become a subscriber to NFBNewsline®, please Contact Ryan Osentowski, Nebraska NFBNewsline® Coordinator, at:
Jamie Forbis
NFBNewsline® Coordinator
Nebraska Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired
4600 Valley Road, Suite 100
Lincoln, NE 68510-4844
Phone: (402) 471-8102
Fax: (402) 471-3009
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