[bksvol-discuss] Re: AT Explanation Questions
- From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 19:01:00 -0700 (PDT)
Great minds think alike, Monica. i brought this up to Alisa several months ago
and they are working on some solutions, ideally pairing with the corporations
to
get some donations, but I said it would be cool id our volunteer credits could
also be converted (not necessarily dollar for dollar) into software and
hardware
grants for proven volunteers and recruiting others who might be low income and
unable to afford the "price of admission."
Alisa and Madeleine are doing a great job working, but it will take a while to
analyze things and get a plan in place.
Valerie
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From: Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sun, May 20, 2012 6:29:30 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: AT Explanation Questions
Hi. You know, needing special scanning software is one of the barriers
I've run into when trying to recruit sighted volunteers. They don't
want to buy it, and I can't blame them since they can see and don't
really need it. It would be awesome if Bookshare could come up with a
way to provide even a stripped down OEM version of FineReader or
Omnipage to sighted volunteers for the purpose of getting books into
the collection. We actually need more sighted volunteers because some
types of books can't be scanned well by a totally blind person. I
think we'd see a lot more willingness to help if the up front software
cost wasn't an issue.
--
Monica Willyard
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