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

Wed Nov 23 01:21:51 UTC 2011

Hello all,

We all know of this problems and the circumstances in regards to
the nabs link audio site... I don't know what to tell you all
but, things have happened and, hopefully they will get settled on
this matter soon! So, please all be patient on this and, let's
not possess this list on this matter anymore okay!

Hugs,
amy

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Chris Nusbaum
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 8:20 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] New Nabslinkaudio.org Site Will Launch
Tonight

Dave, we've been waiting since like August! I understand David 
has a bunch of stuff to take care of with his running of 
AudioAccessFM, but something really must be going on here, to 
have the Web page not work for four months, even after a change 
of Web hosting providers and like three emails to the list from 
the Webmaster himself saying that it's back up.

Chris

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 ----- Original Message -----
From: David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:51:40 -0600
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] New Nabslinkaudio.org Site Will Launch 
Tonight

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

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