best digital police scanner for blind people

[McNuttDwayne]

I am a blind person looking for a digital scanner. I am looking for a blind scanner group or forum where I can talk to other
blind scanner listeners so that I can determine which scanner is most friendly accessible for blind person.

 

[EvilLithiumMan]

Pretty sure this topic has never been approached. As I understand it, one of the main objectives of RR.com is to help others. I feel like I am walking on eggshells here, and am doing my best to avoid posting something stupid or offensive.

In my opinion, no scanner has ever been designed for the impaired and I doubt one will be.

If one is totally blind, I suggest the Uniden BCD396XT. Obviously, someone else would program it, but assuming it was programmed without assigining any system/group keys, it would be fairly easy to operate. One would only use the four buttons on the left column: "ON/OFF" "LOCK OUT" "SCAN" and "HOLD". The volume knob must be pressed to activate, and if it wasn't pressed, rotating it would not disturbed anything programmed. The "Menu" and "Fuction" buttons on the side would require a shield. Activting them and not being able to know what was happening couldn't possibly be to anyone's advantage.

If one has partial vision and requires a large, bright screen, a software program like Butel may be helpful. It has a Virtual Scanner feature which puts the scanner's display and keypad on the monitor. The only thing I am unsure of is the size of the font - some items could still remian hard to read if the font size is fixed.

 

[SCPD]

I would tend to favor something like the PSR-800 (or Whistler 1080) with its limited buttons. Ideally, have a friend program it for you with the systems you need. Then once it's programmed (in theory) you shouldn't have to really change anything. Then you can memorize the system lists once they're programmed.

It also supports Phase 2. And it has the proper busy tone if there's an encrypted conversation.

It just depends on how much you want to fiddle with the scanner or just listen to audio output.

Hope that helps a little.

 

[fxdscon]

I am a blind person looking for a digital scanner. I am looking for a blind scanner group or forum where I can talk to other
blind scanner listeners so that I can determine which scanner is most friendly accessible for blind person.

The topic has been brought up quite a few times on the various forums. There doesn't seem to be anything recent enough to cover the latest scanner designs, but these older links may at least give you some usable knowledge as to what others have been using:

http://forums.radioreference.com/general-scanning-discussion/220168-blind-man-scanning-solo.html

http://forums.radioreference.com/scanner-programming-software/269060-having-trouble-free-scan.html

http://forums.radioreference.com/sc...anything-done-make-easier-use-blind-user.html

http://forums.radioreference.com/sc...39530-new-radios-old-problem-no-solution.html

http://forums.radioreference.com/general-scanning-discussion/59267-what-type-scanner.html

Hope some of this might be useful.

.

 

[Soundman]

Bc496hp is the easy to program . All you need is computer . You don't have to do any programing all you have to do is put in a zip code and you are done .

 

[buddrousa]

The Radioshack PRO-668 or the Whistler WS1080 both have large bold print on the display.
The Whistler WS1095 should have the same display type in a mobile base type scanner.

 

[buddrousa]

The RadioShack PRO-668 and the Whistler ES1080 have large bold print on there screens.
The Whistler WS1095 should have the same type display.