<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thank you Heather<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 12, 2021, at 7:00 PM, heather Albright via NFB-Muslims <<a href="mailto:nfb-muslims@nfbnet.org" class="">nfb-muslims@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Asalamu alaykum wa Rahmatullah Inshallah, I wanted to post some resources to the list inshallah. This is a working list but, it is Ramadan and inshallah, it is hard to be close with not being able to be with your Islamic community.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">So feel free to use these resources. If anyone has any resources that are accessible, following the w3c rules, please post here inshallah.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Here is a list of accessible resources for blind Muslims.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">1. one can get the quran from alfitrah foundation in both arabic and english located in Malaysia. facebook site:</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">main site:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.alfitrah.net/" class="">www.alfitrah.net</a></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The arabic code they are using is based off the unified arabic braille code out of saudi. They produce the english quran too however, they are not using UEB code as they did not have resources to change it to UEB code. They have the beginning guide to prayer; the 40 hadifs; the English quran in six volumes, the arabic quran in six volumes. And the braille Quranic primar.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">2. One can contact Madrasa An-noor for the blind in south Africa their site is:</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://www.mnblind.org/" class="">https://www.mnblind.org/</a>. They have a lot of items for English speaking blind Muslims. I do not know if they have formally signed the Marrakesh Treaty. They also have the braille Quranic primar, you have to locate a teacher of the Arabic code, it is not being taught here in North America.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">However, there is a youtube channel at:</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt0bQfLkRjfC6cpMTCpDykA" class="">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt0bQfLkRjfC6cpMTCpDykA</a>. That started providing lessons on how to use the Arabic braille code to read the Quran.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">3. There is another site in the UK for english islamic materials:</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="http://www.kitaba.org/" class="">http://www.kitaba.org/</a>. You can e-mail them and they have lectures streamed online.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">4. Here in the USA, the arabic only quran in six volumes is shipped out of dallas from:</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://baitulmaal.org/" class="">https://baitulmaal.org/</a>.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Here is the direct number to have them send you the arabic only quran: 18002779554. I would just like to note, their qurans tend to fall apart they do not have the best binding, they get them from Jordan, wich also uses the unified Arabic Braille code.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">5. Also Islam by touch Inc. is located in the US. </div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="http://www.islambytouch.com/" class="">www.islambytouch.com</a></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">They emboss in UEB code. They use Sahee international. They also have an app "islam by touch," you can read islamic texts with Apple devices They also have the fortreess of the Muslim in 2 volumes and the english Quran is in 10 volumes.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">6. In the USA<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.bookshare.org/" class="">www.bookshare.org</a></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> has the english Quran it is the Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall translation.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">7. Also a good resource that is accessible is:</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">7750 . MacArthur, Suite 120237, Irving, TX 75063 e-mail:</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">info@yaqeeninstitute.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">They have an app off the apple store it is called "Yaqeen Institute." You can find it off their page:</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Almost All their items are accessible and their site complies to the w3c laws.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Here is their site:</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://yaqeeninstitute.org/" class="">https://yaqeeninstitute.org/</a>. I just want to note I have already informed them their PDF downloadable files are not in accessible OCR PDF format. But you can read them just fine online with all 3 screen readers off windows, jaws, NVDA and narrator. Voice over off apple. I do not have any info for talk back off Android or google's voicebox off chrome books or voice view off Amazon's fire tablits.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">8<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://islam.ca/" class="">https://islam.ca/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>this is an Islamic center in Canada that is trying to be accessible, you can subscribe to their YouTube channel. They have different series you can sign up for.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">ramadan Mubarak</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">fee amanAllah</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">sister Heather</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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