[nabs-l] sort of disappointed

[Mark J. Cadigan]

I find bible gateway http://www.biblegateway.com/ to be a great accessible 
bible. Also, for any Catholic teenagers on this list, there is a wonderful 
program called lifeteen. It is not a program for people with disabilities, 
but it is very welcoming and I have never had any problems with it. There 
are lifeteen programs in parishes all over the country.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh Kennedy" <jkenn337 at gmail.com>
To: <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 5:25 PM
Subject: [nabs-l] sort of disappointed


> Hi
>
> Well I looked and looked and there are no blind catholic organizations in 
> the United States. I found the association of blind catholics, but its in 
> the United Kingdom and I surely cannot go there for meetings, at least not 
> at this point.
>
> I am also disappointed to report that after extensive searching the only 
> catholic materials I can get in daisy format either daisy text or daisy 
> audio is on bookshare nls and rfbd. But you have to be a member to join 
> those. There are many public domain documents on the ewtn website which 
> are just text or word documents. I don't think EWTN thought of blind 
> people when they designed their site and their library. Here is what would 
> be really cool.
> 1. there are public domain catholic bibles and catholic catechisms. the 
> baltimore catechism 1901 and douay rheims bible are public domain 
> materials. they may be older but they're certainly readable. But they are 
> not in daisy format! It would be nice to have a blind catholics devision 
> which would combine both ACB and nfb blind people who are catholics, 
> interested in catholicism or whoever wants to join for curiosity sake. I 
> haven't created a website in years though. I guess I could use ms-word to 
> help me with that. And maybe we could have online bible study or catechism 
> classes for people. I wonder if anybody in my parish would want to help or 
> could help out with this? I think maybe I'll ask next time. I'm the only 
> blind person in my parish. My wife doesn't go with me but I hope someday 
> she will decide to. I do take my sighted son to church with me though.
>
> Oh, for those who don't have word. if you want to use openoffice to make 
> daisy books you can use vinux in a virtual machine it has openoffice 
> writer its accessible in vinux right out of the box. just add the daisy 
> plugin and off you go making daisy books. and you can copy and paste your 
> books to and from windows and vinux with vmware tools just using copy and 
> paste commands. I have word in windows. But converting ewtn library 
> documents to daisy will be a big project. First I have to get familiar 
> with how save as daisy works. Also for daisy audio microsoft anna or the 
> acapela voices would be good for converting to daisy audio I think. So 
> what do you guys think? There have to be more blind people who are 
> catholic out there besides just me, perhaps my wife in the future well so 
> far she's not catholic...
>
> Josh
>
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