[Nfb-announce] Fwd: [BANA-Announce] BANA Welcomes New Member Organization at Spring Meeting

[David Andrews]

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>Braille Authority of North America
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>Press Release
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>April 2017
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>For Immediate Release
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>Contact: Jennifer Dunnam, Chair
>Braille Authority of North America
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><mailto:chair at brailleauthority.org>chair at brailleauthority.org
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>BANA Welcomes New Member Organization and
>Forms Strategic Plan Work Groups
>during San Francisco Meeting
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>The Braille Authority of North America (BANA), 
>which meets face-to-face semiannually, held its 
>2017 spring meeting March 12–144 in San 
>Francisco, California, at the San Francisco 
>Airport Marriott Waterfront Hotel. This meeting 
>was hosted by the California Transcribers and 
>Educators of the Blind and Visually Impaired 
>(CTEBVI), a BANA member organization, and was 
>held in conjunction with CTEBVI's annual conference.
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>During its three-day meeting, the BANA Board 
>reviewed semiannual reports from its eighteen 
>committees and acted on committee 
>recommendations. The Board welcomed Vivian Seki, 
>the new representative from the Hadley Institute 
>for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and 
>approved the application for full membership of 
>the Accessibility Solutions and Research Center (AMAC) in Atlanta, Georgia.
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>The Board also engaged in discussions designed 
>to move forward an updated BANA strategic plan. 
>Board members assembled into two work groups of 
>equal size. One group will consider actions BANA 
>should take to address perspectives and issues 
>concerning braille for mathematics and science. 
>The other group will deal with actions BANA 
>should take toward more effective and timely 
>development, maintenance, and publication of 
>braille codes and guidelines. For the next 
>several months, the groups will work on these 
>topics by conference call and will report their 
>progress at the fall BANA Board meeting.
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>The fall 2017 Board meeting, hosted by the 
>Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually 
>Impaired, will be held November 1–4 in WWinnetka, Illinois.
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>NOTE: This press release is available in HTML on 
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>The mission of the Braille Authority of North 
>America is to assure literacy for tactile 
>readers through the standardization of braille and/or tactile graphics.
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