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E-Access Bulletin is the world's leading email newsletter containing independent, lively news and features on all issues surrounding access to technology by people who are blind or have impaired vision. It is free for anyone to receive, by simply emailing a special address (eab-subs@headstar.com).

All the monthly bulletin's content is newly researched, and written or commissioned by Headstar's own journalists. The newsletter is emailed out in plain text format, with all formatting designed to be easy to read by the text-to-speech and text-to-Braille technology used by many blind people.

Technologies such as the internet and mobile phones can be a great liberator to people with impaired vision, but only if they are designed in an accessible way. We believe it is vital that accessibility for all is built into new technologies from the outset, not only for reasons of social inclusion and equality but also because it makes good business sense. Bulletin coverage focuses on this issue and includes the latest news about digital books, accessible online learning, digital TV and digital radio.

The bulletin has a special accessible web site at: http://www.headstar.com/eab which carries the full text of all back issues to download for free in various formats.

The target audience for the bulletin includes all blind and visually impaired people and the statutory, public, voluntary and charitable bodies that assist them, as well as their families, friends and carers.

Our current sponsor is the Ford Motor Company: we are extremely grateful to them for their kind ongoing support.