[nabs-l] French books?

[Dan Burke]

Brandon,

I think a combination of the ideas presented may be your best solution.

I agree that Braille is the best way to study a new language. 

Taking the clean Word doc and coding all the French language areas as French is the process that they would have to follow, however.  It is time-consuming.  But that is the only way you will get the correct language codings and therefore the correct Braille output.  Scanning the book won't produce that without the intensive coding.  And by the way, they need to have auto-correct turned off on the spell-checker. (grin)

Once they have that done, they can import it into Duxbury and translate it.  If you want it in hard-copy you can have it. And you can also load the .brf files into your Apex.

Do you know the French braille code?  You need to.

By the way, disability rights laws in higher ed don't care about the DS office's annual budget.  The institution's annual budget is the only factor that matters in determining if a request for modifications is reasonable or if it is an "undue burden."

Best,
Dan


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-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sophie Trist
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 3:23 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] French books?

Jewel, if I were you, I would let them give you the clean doc and 
read it on your apex. That's what I do with nearly all of my 
textbooks. French is no different. The braillenote can read 
French. If you need to know how to get it to do that, feel free 
to email me offlist.

HTH,
Sophie

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Jewel <herekittykat2 at gmail.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:58:13 -0400
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] French books?

I got my French book in Word documents. The AT specialist scanned 
the text, then went through and set the French portions to read 
with the JAWS French voice. Anyone can do this, but I don't 
remember how it is done. It is also very time consuming. But it 
allowed me to read and spell the text in French, and helped me 
with pronunciation. I don't know how it would be done in Braille, 
or if that would even be helpful, unless you happen to know 
French Braille, which is different from American Braille. I would 
suggest doing it the way I did, with the French portions of the 
text read with the French voice. Once you have a general grasp of 
the language, then you can work on learning French Braille, when 
all the accents will make sense. This is just my opinion, though, 
so you don't have to listen to me. *grins*
-Jewel

Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 17, 2013, at 4:16 PM, Brandon Keith Biggs 
<brandonkeithbiggs at gmail.com> wrote:

 Hello,
 I am taking a french class this Fall quarter and my school is 
trying to figure out how they can get me my French book. I have 
told them that I wanted it in Braille, but they don't know what 
the best way to get it to me is.
 They refused to get a French Braille transcriber because it 
would cost $17000 and that is the whole budget of the department. 
I asked them if they could do sections, but they were really put 
off by that quote, so are asking for other ways to get the 
Braille to me.
 I am wondering if anyone knows if:
 1. Putting the clean doc through DBT on the french setting and 
giving it to me
 2. giving me the clean doc and I read it on my APEX

 is the better option for me?
 I've never delbt with a huge French text all on its own before, 
so don't know how my technology will interact with it.
 If anyone has used any of the above options please let me know.
 Thank you,

 --
 Brandon Keith Biggs


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