[Nfb-lions] Possible Suggestion About Increasing Lion Magazine on NFB Newsline

[Milton Ota]

I'm not sure if all of you are aware about the future of publications put
out by Lions International--by 2018 plans are to discontinue the Lions
Magazine in a print format that is mailed to each and every individual
member. The magazine will be only available in a digital format via the web.
It is to bring Lions International into the total digital age so we don't
know what it is going to be like in terms of accessibility for Lions who are
blind or visually impaired. 

I have a reliable source about this digitalization as a member from my club
is on his second year as an International director. 

Currently if you have an iPad (any model) there is an app in the app store
that will allow you to read the magazine on your iPad. The app is optimized
only for the iPad so those using an iPhone won't be able to download and
install this app.

At one time there was a volunteer group out of San Jose, California that was
recording the Lions magazine on cassette. Then, Learning Ally began
producing it on CDs and now the magazine is not only available from Learning
Ally on CD but the mp3 files are made available to Lions International for
posting on their website.

It is only recently that NFB-Newsline picked up the magazine and that is a
great thing. There are a few staff in the national office that are Lions
members as well so this could have been something they talked with Lions
International about.

If you have further questions, post them here.


-----Original Message-----
From: Nfb-lions [mailto:nfb-lions-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of adrijana
prokopenko via Nfb-lions
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 12:55 PM
To: NFB and Lions <nfb-lions at nfbnet.org>
Cc: adrijana prokopenko <adrijana.prokopenko at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Nfb-lions] Possible Suggestion About Increasing Lion Magazine
on NFB Newsline

I also suggested this to them, but they said it couldn't be done and
said they would consider it in the future. That is why I once
suggested that all of us start asking them about this.

On 12/29/15, Todd Orlowski via Nfb-lions <nfb-lions at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I would recommend contacting them again and see if they can offer a word
> or text document version which more than likely they will have because
> they had to start it in another program before moving it over into a PDF
> format.
>
>
> On 12/29/2015 9:42 AM, adrijana prokopenko via Nfb-lions wrote:
>> I can easily spread it on my facebook called:
>> Blind penpals
>> but I think they will need to work on making it more accessible to
>> blind people who use speech programs. I addressed this issue to them
>> but don't see much difference. It will make it much easier if they
>> make it in one pdf file per magazine that would be read at a click of
>> a button or one audio file that we could access by downloading,
>> otherwise, it is too much scrolling and on the pdf version, most of
>> the pages are mixed up and repeated.
>>
>> On 12/29/15, Paul Smith via Nfb-lions <nfb-lions at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> Hello fellow Lions.  Here's a suggestion about spreading the word about
>>> The Lion Magazine on NFB Newsline that, if done right, just might
>>> increase readership.
>>>
>>> Why not approach your radio reading and/or information service in your
>>> locality and see if they'd run an add on the availability of our mag on
>>> NFB Newsline? I'm sure there are many more blind folk who listen to
>>> this kind of specialized reading service who are also subscribers of
>>> NFB Newsline.  I've approached our radio reading service here in
>>> Baltimore, and hopefully before too long something can be generated
>>> locally.  You might even determine if your local club has a program
>>> that blind folk could attend, and this info could be incorporated into
>>> say a weekly reading of The Lion Magazine, provided of course that a
>>> volunteer can be found locally to read the mag.  Anyway just a
>>> suggestion.
>>>
>>> Before I close my post, I'd like to wish my fellow Lions a good new
>>> year 2016 both personally and in your service in Lionism.  Your fellow
>>> Lion, Lion Paul, a proud member of a District 22A club
>>>
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