[duxuser] Re: Article on Braille transcription focuses on NBPtranscriber and Duxbury Systems
- From: "Foxworth, Ann" <Ann.Foxworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:51:53 -0500
I agree with Sharon. I work for a vocational rehab agency for the blind
and even though we have about three hundred staff computers loaded with
Duxbury, and I provide hundreds of hours yearly of education on
producing braille documents for our consumers, I still have staff
expecting to be able to get a complicated table document embossed in an
hour or so. Unless you've actually had experience working with braille
production, you can't even begin to imagine the idiosyncrasies of the
process.
I know, I'm preaching to the choir.
-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Sharon Hilton
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 10:42 AM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Article on Braille transcription focuses on
NBPtranscriber and Duxbury Systems
This is a fairly well written article with good explanations, but, I
feel the author went wrong with the comment "Cronin takes text entered
on her computer, types in a command, and watches it instantly morph on
the screen into Braille code." This makes it sound like no skills or
training is involved! How will we ever get the lay person to recognize
braille transcribing as a true profession as long as they think there is
no brain matter involved?
Sharon Hilton
shilton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Braille Transcriber/Inclusion Assistant
New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired Alamogordo, New
Mexico 88310
>>> david@xxxxxxxxxx 09/11/06 10:07 AM >>>
With a perhaps "over the top" use of Harry Potter as a metaphor, there
was
a great article in yesterday's Boston Globe about braille
transcription.
Rarely does a short article explain braille transcription issues so
well.
<http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/09/10/lost_in_translatio
ns/>http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/09/10/lost_in_transla
tions/
By the way, I have checked Joe Sullivan's resume, and have confirmed
that
he has in fact never attended Hogwarts.
-- David Holladay
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