[NFB-Hams] Question

[Travis Siegel]

What would be most uplifting is to see more blind hams.

This could be made easier by someone (I don't care who) creating a book, 
website, blog post, email, podcast, or anything else that actually 
contains information folks who are unfamiliar with the hobby need to 
know to not only get online, but to get licensed, and gain the knowledge 
they need to know where/who/when to ask for help for things they don't 
understand/need additional assistance to complete/understand.  I'm (now) 
on two ham lists for the blind, and I have not seen a comprehensive plan 
for new hams *ever*. Even when I made an attempt to get licensed back 
around the 2K timeframe, all there was, was handihams, who sent me a 
book called Now Your Talking, then left me to figure out the rest on my 
own. Needless to say, I did not manage to get licensed back then, and to 
this day, although I've been interested in ham radio since the late 
1980s, I am still unlicensed, largely due to the fact that there just 
isn't a single source of info a blind user can access for everything one 
needs to accomplish the whole licensing process.

Generally, I'm a self starter, and I have no problem learning things.  
I'm self taught for nearly all of the 2 dozen plus programming languages 
I know, and I can generally pick up new operating systems, (I'm familiar 
with MacOS, Linux, Windows, Dos, Android, FreeBSD, and various versions 
of said operating systems, all learned on my own with no trouble.  But, 
for what it's worth, I just *can't* wrap my mind around the whole 
licensing test material, and I haven't a clue why that is.  Maybe I've 
just not found a format that works for me yet, or perhaps I've not found 
someone who can explain it all in a way I can grasp, but regardless, 
despite more than 20 years of trying, I've just plain not managed to 
accomplish the whole amateur license task thing, and that's a major 
disappointment for me.

Having something that could walk someone through the process, with all 
the reference materials one might need to accomplish the task would be 
beneficial to all kinds of folks, not just me I'm sure.