Digital broadcasters are ignoring the people who are among the heaviest consumers of radio, the blind and visually impaired, argues broadcast professional Ian Macrae.

Digits matter a lot to visually impaired people. The ones attached to our hands, as well as those which carry crystal clear radio to our ears.

Some of us use them for reading. Many of us use them for exploring what's around us.

Even more of us, perhaps even enough of us to make the stereotype valid, use our digits for twiddling radio dials.

But when it comes to the other sort, or rather to the people who design and manufacture the equipment for receiving DAB, (Digital Audio Broadcasting), they seem to have forgotten that the stereotype of the visually impaired radio fanatic even exists.

They have come very close to designing something which is unusable, or at least very difficult for us, perhaps the most avid, hungry and, let's face it, needy group of radio listeners.

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