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ONLINE SHOPPING GUIDE
Website reviews by screen reader users
10th Floor = Hi-fi, Music and accessories.
Contributed to by several TAFN members.
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Welcome to (TAFN) The Accessible Friends Network ONLINE SHOPPING GUIDEWebsite reviews by screen reader users10th Floor = Hi-fi, Music and accessories.Contributed to by several TAFN members. |
Sites Reviewed on this Floor (8):
BOSE
Budget Batteries
Castle Classics
CD WOW
Denise Leigh
Play dot com
Sherwoods Photo
Simply
Radios
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Web Address: http://www.bose.co.uk
Brief Rating: A good site.
If you are a real hi-fi connoisseur and have a bit of money to spare, look no further than the superb quality and sound of Bose products. spend time learning about them and purchase the smaller items online. You will have to visit your Bose dealer to buy their more expensive systems.
Reviewed by: Sue Pallett
Web address: www.budgetbatteries.co.uk
Brief Rating: A great site for batteries!
Review by: Norman Octon
A site I use quite a lot to get my batteries from is Budget Batteries. Most batteries are cheaper than on the high street, and there are particularly good bargains on unusual batteries such as button cells or camera batteries. They also now sell blank disks, CDs etc.
Accessibility is just about ok; that is, when reading the product summary pages it is too easy to read the wrong price for the product you are interested in. However, you are guaranteed the right price when you open up the "more info..." page on a product.
Delivery is free for orders of £40 or more excluding VAT. All prices exclude VAT unfortunately. Orders below £40 are charged by weight, which can work out quite expensive.
Web address: http://www.castleclassics.co.uk/page1.htm
Brief
Rating: Very Good site.
Review
by: Sue Pallett
Description: A lovely little uncluttered site, run by a friendly company in Scotland who are really keen to hear from their customers. They will happily try to source any currently available or catalogue listed classical title for you even if it doesn’t appear on the site, and are keen to receive e-mails.You can browse A to Z through composers, or choose a genre. There is extra information on the discs too, orchestra, performer, record label etc. Check the boxes on the items you are interested in and send your order. Fill in the easy payment and delivery section. You will receive e-mail confirmation of your order. Your CD’s, SACD’s, DVD’s will arrive beautifully packaged, somewhere between 4 to 10 days after purchase.
Web address: http://www.cdwow.com/
Brief Rating: A good site.
The name of this site doesn't do it justice by any means.
Not only can you shop here for cd's from all genres, but DVD's, computer games, mp3-players, computer headsets and music downloads. You will also find WOW links to other sites which sell gifts, cosmetics and so much more.
Shop at CD Wow via this link, to raise funds for TAFN!
Web address: http://www.deniseleigh.com
Brief Rating: A very good site.
This is the website of visually-impaired opera singer Denise Leigh. Learn about her and buy her signed cd's online.
She has a beautiful light soprano voice and her bubbly personality really comes over when you read all about her.
Web address: www.play.com
Brief Rating: A good site.
Here is a good site for cheap CD's and DVD's which I have used. What's even better there is No postage charge.
Recommended and reviewed by Ron Sears.
Shop at Play dot com via this link, to raise funds for TAFN!
Web Address: http://www.sherwoods-photo.com/
Brief Rating: A very good site.
This may seem a strange site to add to the Shopping Guide. The reason why I investigated it is, that it has a very good section on radios, both with and without cassette and cd players. This includes our old favourite, the very reliable Roberts.
There is good product information and it is easy to buy from them.
Reviewed by: Sue Pallett
Brief Rating: A very good site.
DISCLAIMER: Neither Sue Pallett or the Accessible Friends Network accept liability for any transaction with any of the companies listed on this page, which is intended as a helpful guide and produced and run on an entirely voluntary basis.
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Sue's Kitchen, a cookery guide for blind & VI people that featured on BBC in Touch, in 2005!
Also the excellent
Sue's Accessible Container Gardening Page
People from across our network would would love to hear of your online shopping experiences, both good and bad. Is there a particular site YOU recommend or would like to add to this page? Have YOU had problems with online shopping, either with screen reader navigation, or customer service? Or has a particular supplier been especially helpful to you?
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