[nabs-l] accessible magazines
Chris Nusbaum
dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com
Sun Oct 2 23:10:17 UTC 2011
Hi Ashley,
Newsline is a great source for mainstream magazines like the
examples you gave, with the exception of Seventeen. However, you
could email Scott White, the director of Newsline, at
swhite at nfb.org and suggest that magazine to him to put on
Newsline. They're always looking for ideas on new newspapers and
magazines to be added. I can understand what you're saying about
the speech synthesizer not being appealing to listen to (although
it's the same Eloquence used for JAWS, plus they've added two
more human-sounding voices from Nuance, Paul and Kate, which you
could find on the phone service by hitting 8 repeatedly in an
article until you find the one you like.) However, you can now
read Newsline material both from directly on the site using Web
News On Demand or by email. They'll send you a DAISY book of
each newspaper in your email favorites list. To set this up, go
to www.nfbnewslineonline.org and log in with your Newsline ID and
security code and you're good to go. If you have any questions
about this, please let me know or call Newsline at 866-504-7300.
I don't know what magazines Bookshare and RFBD have, but I know
they have them, from what I hear from friends and earlier
discussions on this list. BARD also has magazines. I've just
signed up, so I don't know which magazines they have. Hope this
helps!
Chris
Chris Nusbaum
"The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight. The
real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that
exists. If a blind person has the proper training and
opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a mere physical
nuisance." -- Kenneth Jernigan (President of the National
Federation of the Blind, 1968-1986.)
Visit the I C.A.N. Foundation online at:
www.icanfoundation.info for
information on our foundation and how it helps blind and visually
impaired children in MD say "I can!"
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:46:04 -0400
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] accessible magazines
Chris,
Good ideas. Actually, I'm signed up for newsline but do not use
it much. The
synthesized speech isn't appealing to listen for long periods.
Still if
they have the magazines I want, I'll give it a try.
Oh, and I already get the Washington Ear. It¡¯s a good free
service. I like
the human readers. Yes they do have a few magazines including
two I want to
read and keep. But thing is that is recorded and I'd prefer a
copy I can
keep preferaly a braille or electronic magazine.
I mainly listen to the washington post and wall stree journal
with it and
Time.
I was trying to find sources of mainstream magazines such as the
New Yorker,
Time, or Seventeen.
The digital versions online are very limited. If anyone
subscribes to them,
I'd
like to know. I wonder how accessible they are. I don't want to
pay a
subscription if its not real accessible.
You mentioned bookshare and RFB. I wasn't aware they did
magazines. Its my
understanding they only do books.
If they, in fact, do magazines, which ones?
Does a mainstream source have recorded magazines such as
audible.com or
amazon.com?
I wanted to read more sources to broaden my news perspective and
of course
to observe different writing styles.
I'm interested in reading more book reviews, play reviews, and
profile
stories. This way I know how to write them if I decide to do
free lance
work.
Thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Nusbaum
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 6:22 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] accessible magazines
Hi Ashley,
You have a few options here. You could read magazines
and newspapers on NFB Newsline. This is the way I read most of
my magazines. It's free to sign up, and you can read many
magazines and newspapers from around the country plus TV
listings, job listings, and local blindness-related information
(in the form of a state information channel put out by your
state's sponsor, which is usually the state NLS library) either
on the phone by calling into the service, on the Web, on your
Victor Stream or any other talking book player that supports
DAISY files, on an NLS DTB player, on a notetaker that supports
DAISY files, or on your MP3 player or iPod. For more
information, you can call 1-866-504-7300 or go to
nfbnewsline.org. Now I know that you are in
northern Virginia, so you can also use the Washington Ear, which
is a service like Newsline, only it has human readers (like RFBD
magazines) and it only has local newspapers, although it has some
national magazines. For somebody who lives in the area, the Ear
is nice because it has some of the smaller newspapers from the DC
suberbs on it that you wouldn't find on a national service like
Newsline. You can go to washear.org for information about that.
The Ear has both a phone service and a radio reading service, but
the phone service is free, so I'd recommend that. You can
usually get blindness magazines either in Braille, large print,
by email, or over the Internet. For example, I'm subscribed to
both the Braille Monitor (from NFB) and the Braille Forum (from
ACB.) I get the Monitor mailed to me in Braille (come to think of
it, I haven't gotten my August/September Monitor yet) and the
Forum emailed to me. You can get those magazines at either
nfb.org or acb.org. On the NFB site, just select Publications,
then Braille Monitor. On the ACB site, go to the Quick Links
heading and select the Braille Forum link. From there, you
should find subscription options, either in the form of a link
and then a form field or just a form field on the same page.
Many mainstream magazines are available online, and a lot of
these are accessible. Heck, even my state NFB affiliate only
distributes our newsletter, the Braille Spectator, on Newsline
and online on our site. They don't even make a hardcopy! So, you
can find many magazines online. Of course, not all of them are
accessible, but it doesn't hurt to check the ones you're
interested in out to see, if they're not on Newsline, the Ear, or
NLS/Bookshare, or you don't want to read them by these means.
Speaking of Bookshare, they also have a lot of magazines, along
with RFBD. You could always try them. To answer your question
about NLS, I didn't know there was a special magazine program
they have. I know that they have magazines on WebBraille and
BARD, if you're subscribed to either one. To sign up for these
services, the best way is to contact your state LBPH. Note that
you need a notetaker or a Braille display to read WebBraille
materials, as they are in BRF format. Hope this helps! Please
let me know if you have any questions!
Chris
Chris Nusbaum
"The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight. The
real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that
exists. If a blind person has the proper training and
opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a mere physical
nuisance." -- Kenneth Jernigan (President of the National
Federation of the Blind, 1968-1986.)
Visit the I C.A.N. Foundation online at:
www.icanfoundation.info for
information on our foundation and how it helps blind and visually
impaired children in MD say "I can!"
Sent from my BrailleNote
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:36:40 -0400
Subject: [nabs-l] accessible magazines
Hi all,
I want to read more magazines to be better informed and by
reading you can learn how to write better.
How is the NLS magazine program set up? Are the cassettes indexed
by article? Do multiple narrators read the one periodical?
Do I contact my cooperating library to sign up for any magazine?
Also I?™m interested in reading these magazines. I' wish I
could just buy one from a newstand, but can?™t. So are any of
these accessible? Some magazines are digital, but I do not know
if the electronic version is accessible. They are:
1. Time magazine
2. Washingtonian
3. Newsweek
4. The New Yorker
5. Southern Living
6. Fortune
Also, I think APH produces Readers digest. If anyone gets it, is
the quality good? What articles are in it?
Thanks.
Ashley
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