[bksvol-discuss] Re: AT Explanation Questions
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 20:52:02 -0700 (PDT)
Great idea, thanks you creative people.
alisa is also working on a way to credit those of us who are also working on
the Poet image project to earn credits which we can then give to members ofr
put into the credit "bank." It takes time to write descriptions for the images
in textbooks, and particularly if we can't easily identify the image, which is
a problem I've having at the moment ? (Is anyone knowledgeable about red
blood cells enough to be able to tell me what something that looks like pink
ribbon candy is? (if you know what ribbon candy is, smile)
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> From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 7:01 PM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: AT Explanation Questions
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>Great minds think alike, Monica. i brought this up to Alisa several months
>ago and they are working on some solutions, ideally pairing with the
>corporations to get some donations, but I said it would be cool id our
>volunteer credits could also be converted (not necessarily dollar for dollar)
>into software and hardware grants for proven volunteers and recruiting others
>who might be low income and unable to afford the "price of admission."
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>Alisa and Madeleine are doing a great job working, but it will take a while to
>analyze things and get a plan in place.
> Valerie
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>From: Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Sun, May 20, 2012 6:29:30 PM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: AT Explanation Questions
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>Hi. You know, needing special scanning software is one of the barriers
>I've run into when trying to recruit sighted volunteers. They don't
>want to buy it, and I can't blame them since they can see and don't
>really need it. It would be awesome if Bookshare could come up with a
>way to provide even a stripped down OEM version of FineReader or
>Omnipage to sighted volunteers for the purpose of getting books into
>the collection. We actually need more sighted volunteers because some
>types of books can't be scanned well by a totally blind person. I
>think we'd see a lot more willingness to help if the up front software
>cost wasn't an issue.
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>Monica Willyard
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