[nobe-l] Obtaining curriculum for access with braille display

[Heather Field]

Hello Lara,
You will be personally responsible for getting the textbooks into an 
accessible format. Unfortunately, there is no law which requires publishers 
to make them available in an accessible format. I have never found 
publishers willing to commit any personnel time and money towards providing 
their books in accessible format for me.

What I have done in the past is this.
I have told the publishers that I am willing to buy the print book if they 
agree to provide me with .pdf copies free of charge. If the books are 
available in downloadable format, then I have simply purchased them. I have 
then paid someone to convert the books to .txt and to proof them. All sorts 
of formatting is lost during the conversion process. It can be a slow 
process, requiring the person converting and proofing to do one page at a 
time. However, it can be done. And, once done, you have the books. You do 
not have to obtain anyone's permission to do this since it is law that the 
blind can transcribe materials into alternative formats for their exclusive 
use.
You may want to find out if the books are available in epub format since I 
believe there are now some conversion programmes, such a qread, which can 
convert epub into other formats. I'm not positive on that one, though.
I hope this is helpful for you.
Let us know how you get on.
Warmly,
Heather

-----Original Message----- 
From: Lara Sowell via NOBE-L
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2016 8:12 PM
To: nobe-l at nfbnet.org
Cc: Lara Sowell
Subject: [nobe-l] Obtaining curriculum for access with braille display

I teach Latin in a private school. I want to get Henle First Year Latin and 
Henle Latin Grammar in a format which I can access with a braille display. I 
contacted the publisher, Loyola University Press, but they say they do not 
have a txt or doc format of these texts. I just completed Braille Literacy 4 
through Hadley and am currently taking Experience Braille Reading. I am 
relatively new to braille and want to use it when I teach. How do private 
school teachers go about getting accessible curriculum?

All the best,
Sent from my iPhone
Lara Sowell


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