LYNX-DEV German blind Internet access

[Philip Webb]

While this story doesn't mention Lynx, it does seem related to the topic
of blind access to the Internet which comes up on Lynxdev from time to time.

Reuter Monday 970407 -- German Firms Launch Online Service for Blind

   BONN -- A group of German companies said Monday they plan to launch
   an online computer service that would provide news and information
   for the blind.
   
   The service -- dubbed "Cityweb plus" -- will deliver news and
   information over the Internet in text form to a brail display linked
   to a personal computer. Cost will be 40 marks ($23.75) a month.
   
   The service was developed by an industry consortium including
   publisher Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, computer maker Siemens
   Nixdorf and media giant Bertelsmann.
   
   The companies plan to unveil the service on Tuesday at a conference on
   electronic commerce for small and mid-sized companies sponsored by the
   Group of Seven industrial nations and hosted by Germany.
   
   The service is expected to become operational later this year. The
   companies plan to introduce a text-to-speech enhancement that would
   read news and electronic mail aloud to blind PC users.
   
   Wolfgang Kitza, chairman of Telemedia, the Bertelsmann subsidiary
   responsible for the project, said there were around 155,000 blind
   people in Germany, of which 12,000 work on computers.

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