[nabs-l] New Nabslinkaudio.org Site Will Launch Tonight

[David Andrews]

Good things come to those who wait!

At 02:03 PM 11/13/2011, you wrote:
>Hi David,
>
>I just checked the site, and it STILL says "the page cannot be 
>displayed" when I select the "click here to download or listen to 
>past NABS presentations" link.
>
>Chris
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: David Dunphy <djdrocks4ever at gmail.com
>To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 03:42:28 -0400
>Subject: [nabs-l] New Nabslinkaudio.org Site Will Launch Tonight
>
>Greetings Everyone!
>After many anxious requests for it,
>After many have been asking for it,
>I am happy to announce that...
>Tonight by 9 PM eastern, the new and upgraded nabslinkaudio.org web
>site will be up!
>What does this mean?
>It means that all the nabs membership calls that I've been able to
>record from the time the nabslinkaudio.org project launched to now
>will be available.  But that's not all!
>Here are some of the new/improved features you can expect from the site.
>
>This year's meeting from national convention will be available for
>download.  The final few parts of the elections got cut out sadly, but
>the ones for president, vice president and secretary get revealed.  If
>anyone has any past national convention meetings they are willing to
>share, put them on sendspace or dropbox and email the link/links to
>djdrocks4ever at gmail.com
>so they too can be added.
>
>
>*Closer tighter integration with nabslink.org, meaning you'll beable
>to use the same navigation bar on the nabslink site over on the
>nabslink audio site too.  This will make it easier for you to go from
>our audio pages to the student slate section if you want, etc.
>Steps
>will be taken to try to combine or integrate these sites a little more
>so they can perhaps become one resource for students
>A friendly greeting awaits your ears when you launch the new
>nabslinkaudio site, but it only plays one time and one time only
>unless you delete all your internet cookies everyday.  This will not
>interfere with the use of your screen reader when the site is launched
>for the first time.
>I'd like to put some more informational audio up on the site.
>Like
>talk to people who hold various jobs who are part of the NFB in an
>effort to find out about the jobs, what their college experience was
>like while moving towards the goal of obtaining said job, what
>accessibility challenges came up and how they dealt with them, etc.
>I'm hoping I can integrate these things into the nabslinkaudio.org
>page as an educational resource for blind students.
>
>The ability to receive text notifications by cell phone when a new
>conference call is in the archives plus when one is about to air live
>is now fully integrated into the nabslink audio podcast page.
>Anyone
>wishing to use this feature, including those who previously took
>advantage of it on the old system will have to go through our
>automated registration and validation process.  This will ensure you
>and the nabs membership committee that only the phone owner is using
>this feature and that phone numbers aren't being distributed
>everywhere.
>
>For anyone who fills out the contact form to leave me feedback I'll
>see it and be able to respond faster now since the form also sends me
>a text message..
>
>The web address
>http://www.nabslinkaudio.org
>won't change.  the site will be up by 9 PM eastern.  As soon as it goes
>up, a tweet and an email will be sent out to this list, so feel free
>to spread the word once that happens and to leave your
>comments/feedback.
>If you need to get in touch, email
>djdrocks4ever at gmail.com
> From David