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

[J Acheson]

The Xavier society for the blind may be willing to transcribe this for you. Although it may not be specifically church material, you are teaching in a Catholic school. Check them out at the following website:  

http://www.xaviersocietyfortheblind.org


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> On Feb 3, 2016, at 7:28 PM, Heather Field via NOBE-L <nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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,
>