[nabs-l] accessible magazines

Tue Sep 20 22:22:39 UTC 2011

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

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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.)

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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: 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 Iâ€™m interested in reading these magazines.  I' wish I 
could just buy one from a newstand, but canâ€™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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