[access-uk] Re: Television Programme Transcripts in Accessible Format - Your Opinions Please
- From: "Damon Rose" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:21:39 -0000
Elanor said: "I am aware that with regard to Goods and Services there is now an
obligation put on Service Providers to make print material available in
accessible format. Maybe one of you reading this knows about the RNIB campeign
'Right to Read' and can inform me more."
I don't think that the DDA requires accessible information to be available.
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John Wilson
Sent: 07 November 2008 15:31
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Television Programme Transcripts in Accessible Format
- Your Opinions Please
Hello Elenour,
I've had a look at the BBC/OU page you refer to. I had no trouble getting them
to accept my application for the Ozone Magazine and the booklet without a
student number. Provided that I do get one, of course. I'll have a look at it
when (or if) I received them, as I have an A-Level in Principles of English Law
and still retain some interest in such matters, despite deciding that I did not
want to become a Solicitor some years ago.
By the way, as you will probably have realised, you can open the Ozone Magazine
online as a PDF file but, as is the case with most of these PDF files, it does
not display as correctly as it should. Part way into the magazine, it starts to
be wrongly formatted, so that lines in different columns become interwoven--no
surprise whatsoever to me.
I was interested to know, therefore, why you would want the alternative format
to be in PDF format. You would probably get a not well displayed booklet if you
tried to display this with one of the several PDF to TXT converters available,
including Adobe's own converter. However, if you have enough sight to read the
print in such a document, then this would not be a problem. If you do not, then
I would suggest that you want a text or DOC file and not a PDF file.
If you cannot get these in such as DOC, large print or Braille formats in time,
It might turn out that you get a better copy if you simply scan the print
booklet they send you.
John.
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From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 8:35 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Television Programme Transcripts in Accessible Format -
Your Opinions Please
Hi
I am an Open University student. There is to be a programme broadcast on BBC 2
television next Friday 14 November called Baristers. This programme has an
acompanying booklet to give the viewer more information on the legal cases
discussed in the programme. As the Head of the Law faculty at the Open
University is participating in the programme and the programme has been
advertised to law students at the Open University where blind and partially
sighted students are reading Law, then is it reasonable that we should be
asking for this booklet in alternative PDF format? After all for the book to
be printed in the first instance it must be on computer all ready. I should
have pointed out that this is a Free booklet and people can apply for it. Now
maybe there is an expert out there with regard to Access of material for us and
if so perhaps you will write to me and let me know the exact legal position. I
am aware that with regard to Goods and Services there is now an obligation put
on Service Providers to make print material available in accessible format.
Maybe one of you reading this knows about the RNIB campeign 'Right to Read' and
can inform me more.
Indeed as I am raising this subject and there might be some of you who are
interested in such a programme and unaware of it I attach below the information
I received. It has been regretable that when I contacted the Open University
Law Department they were unable to assist me in this regard yet I am a law
student with the Open University and the television programme is being
advertised by the Law Faculty of the Open University.
Eleanor and please read on about the programme below this if you are
interested.Can I say that in order to get this free book about the law cases
one clicks on the link below and in my experience in going on to the website in
order to find out more about the programme when I saw the free book advertised
I decided to apply for it and the only way I was able to do this was by
providing my Open University student number as well as the remainder of my
personal details.
Surely then this booklet is associated with the Open University. I will be
interested to hear back if any of you try apply for this free book and if you
are successful without having to put in Open University student number.
On Friday 14th November 2008, a new Open University/BBC co-production series,
'The Barristers', will be shown on
BBC2 at 9.00pm. This is a new four-part documentary series giving an honest
and intimate insight into all aspects of court life. Professor Gary Slapper,
Director of the Open University Centre for Law is the academic consultant for
the series.
'The Barristers'
Sometimes perceived as out-dated, elitist and old fashioned and facing the
toughest challenge to its future, one of the most powerful professions in the
country opens its doors for the cameras.
After years of negotiation, the team that produced BBC2's award-winning
'Anatomy of a Crime' has had unprecedented access to the Bar to follow
barristers, their cases - from divorce settlements to murder - and the
ambitious young men and women who aspire to join one of the most prestigious
professions in the world.
The series follows students, Anna, Iqbal, Cat and Jo as they take their first
steps on the Bar Vocational Course - a year at college costing around £12,000.
Will any of them get a Pupillage - an apprenticeship in a set of barrister's
chambers? And then there's a Tenancy to be found before they can finally begin
to practise in court.
While the backdrop maybe steeped in history, tradition and etiquette, the
challenges of the 21st Century are never far away. The government believes the
legal profession is 'outdated and insufficiently accountable' - it's reducing
the Legal Aid budget by millions of pounds, and finding cheaper ways of
prosecuting and defending cases - but the Bar says the quality and independence
of the law is under attack and justice threatened.
For more information see the support website for the series:
www.open2.net/barristers
The Open University Centre for Law team
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