Hi All.
If I may chip in at this point.
As the managing director and owner of a company who provides braille
transcription to businesses all over the UK and as a totally blind person
myself, I completely sympathise with those who do not receive properly
transcribed materials whatever they may be.
From a purely personal point of view, since the introduction of UEB which
some of you will know I am completely and totally against, RNIB publications
have really deteriorated in both quality of Braille and of paper.
I like to think that I am an extremely proficient braille reader yet, I am
now struggling with all RNIB magazines.
And, just as an aside regarding the ongoing UEB discussion, my company have
received more than 50 complaints because recipients have received documents
in UEB and have requested that they receiv materials in Standard Braille.
Of course, as we are customer based and not totally up our own bottoms as the
RNIB are, we offer both UEB and SEB.
Maurice Press.
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Subject: [duxuser] Re: A Reminder to Transcribers
Thank you Cathetherine. I have come accross dozens of textbooks that are not
done in proper code and it is frustrating.
Rhonda Gregoire
Braille Materials
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Cincinnati, Ohio 45244
(513) 232-7770
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On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Catherine Thomas <braille@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:braille@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
I just wanted to mention that UEB and Nemeth are reading formats that
are not automatically familiar to braille readers or their teachers. In many
cases it might be a kindness to include in your documents a list of the new
symbols that a person would encounter. I remember that in grammar school and
high school the math books did contain Nemeth code but nobody ever took the
trouble to teach us to read it. We learned by trial and error jand we never
learned to write it. Perhaps Duxbury can recommend some symbols lists that
transcribers could incorporate into their braille documents. It might make a
world of difference.
Catherine
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