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Geldof: annoying to visually impaired people?

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Crippled Monkey | 00:00 UK time, Friday, 17 June 2005

Echoing the thoughts of a number of Ouch readers, here's a quote from the Online section in yesterday's Guardian newspaper, which begins an article about :

"Bob Geldof specialises in annoying people. But surely he didn't set out to offend blind music fans by handling applications for Live8 concert tickets by text message only. As the RNIB gently pointed out this week, texting is the one e-channel that automatically excludes almost all blind and partially sighted people."

Oh, and check out the first comment added to the post about LIVE 8 below - Ciaran was lucky enough to get himself a pair of tickets, and tells us a little about what he knows about access so far.

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  • At 12:00 AM on 20 Jun 2005, Justin R wrote:


Despite that I personally and a lot of others have text to speech on their mobile phones to get around the exclusion to using txt services. The software isnt' all that cheap and many who can't offard to buy talx, mobile speak or the oasys phone are left out. I don't know why people could not have the option of phoning, e-mailing for tickets as well as text. It's a very single minded approach. Congrats to one of the ticket winners here btw.

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