[Faith-talk] Accessible Materials

[Linda Mentink]

Hi Ericka,

You're giving me an order here? And you don't give any contact 
information? Why don't you ask if we would please? Have you 
contacted them and asked them to put their magazines and 
materials on BARD? I have no idea how magazines get put there, 
but I think requests have to be made directly to NLS.  Have you 
checked Bookshare?

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Contact augsburg fortress in Minneapolis and get them to put 
their magazines & materials on BARD.  Nothing is accessible.  I 
don't appreciate them putting a few things on CD or cassette and 
saying "we are being served".  Aside from a braille hymnal and a 
large print one they don't offer anything else.  They are more 
expensive than anyone could afford and churches rarely want to 
buy one.  They actually think to blind people can share!! I 
spoken to people there often and got nowhere.  They are clueless! 
If I lost the rest of my vision I wouldn't be able to teach 
Sunday school anymore because the materials are not accessible at 
all.  The students do not have anything accessible either.  Not 
all of us have the technology able to make print accessible 
either.  I know Kurz wheel can put things into daily format, but 
not everyone has that accessibility and not every church is 
willing to share.  They say copyright laws.  I had a fight about 
that at my old church.  It was horrible trying to find a book for 
Bible study in format I could read.  90% of the time it didn't 
even come on CD.



Ericka Short
1750 Fordem Ave.  #508
Madison.  WI.  53704
608-665-3170

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