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                            THE BLIND NEWS DIGEST

                                 Issue # 1149

                           Saturday, May 06, 1995

Today's Topics:


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                          Braille Institute Address
                             Announcement letter
                              cassette mailers
                             WWW links to blind
               Informations about special features for Blinds
                          Re: Retinitis Pigmentosa
                        Re: Blind News Digest # 1144
                             postscript to ascii
                              braille printers
            Conveying graphics information from a computer screen


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Subject: Braille Institute Address
From: mrdaca@aol.com (MrDaca)
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)

Does anyone know the address to the Brialle Institute? I am an educator
and need the address to access information for my students. Thank you.
Please E-Mail at MrDaca@AOL.COM



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Subject: Announcement letter
From: altug@boun.edu.tr (E.Altug/Kutuphane)



---------- Forwarded message ----------
 Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 12:11:00 -0400 (EDT)
 From: E.Altug/Kutuphane <altug@boun.edu.tr>
 To: web <web4lib@library.berkeley.edu>
 Cc: Braille news digest <wtm@bunker.afd.olivetti.com>
 Subject: Announcement letter

ANNOUNCEMENT
The International Federation of Libraries Associations(IFLA)Section
Libraries For the Blind,in conjuction with Bosphorus university Library,
proudly announce an Expert's Meeting for Libraries and Librarians serving
people with print impairments.The conference which will be held August17-19
1995,will include workshops,seminars,vendor displays and social
activities. The venue for this event will be the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza
Hotel,a full-service luxury resort on the Sea of Marmara halfway  between
downtown and airport.
Experts from many countries will be presenting papers on a variety of
topics of interest to librarians either working in the field or planning
to enter the field.
This meeting offers the Professional Librarian an opportunity to interact
with colleagues worlwide to further strenghten ties between nations. So,
come to Istanbul, one of the most beatiful and historic cities in the
world,and help create a rich and colorful tapestry of understanding and
knowledge.
If you work in the area of serving people with print impairments, you
cannot afford to miss this wonderful event!
Let's all meet "where the continents meet" in Istanbul!
Contact member: Mrs. Ender Altug
Director,  Bosphorus University library
Tel: 02122575016
Email:altug@boun.edu.tr





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Subject: cassette mailers
From: bkl@REVCAN.CA (Brian Lingard)

4 May, 1995 Ottawa Canada

In response to pavla's message about mailing boxes for talking book
casettes, I think Pavla is referring to the rigid plastic mailing boxes
used in the U.S.A. which are held closed by plastic snaps.

I am not certain who actually makes these boxes but I think the main
vendor of them is

American Printing House for the Blind,
Frankfort Avenue
louisville, Kentucky, USA

They are made in various capacities to hold from 4 to 6 or 8 cassettes.

I will check with the American Printing House for the Blind on prices.

Pavla, you will need a supply of address cards of the corrrect size, but
any printer, such as ORBIS in Prague should be able to make these for
you.

I think ORBIS is in Prague, but with the changes in the Czech Republic
these days, they may have been renamed or closed.

Pavla, I will ask the American Printing house for the Blind to send you
their catalog, please advise if you want Braille or inkprint.

It only comes in English as far as i know and I do not think there is a
charge.

Please advise me by private mail roughly how many of the mailing boxes
you will need.  if a library is starting to buy them, I would expect
many dozens or hundreds of boxes are needed.

I will contact the A.P.H. on behalf of anyone who would like their
catalog please send private mail to me stating:
your full name
complete mailing addrress
telephone, fax and telex numbers if you have them
internet addrress
preferred medium e.g. braille, or ink print it may be available on
cassette but will probably be 4 track, 15/16 ips format.

This offer is available to all subscribers to the Braille mailing list.

Brian Lingrd
bkl@revcan.ca
tel (613) 725-6602



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Subject: WWW links to blind
From: RonMarriag@aol.com

I have established a home page that contains many http, gother, ftp and
telnet sites of interest to the blind.

The location is:

http://dialin.ind.net/~rmarriag/




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Subject: Informations about special features for Blinds
From: VILLA@VM.UNI-BOCCONI.IT (Alberto A. VILLA)
Organization: BOCCONI University, Milano, Italy

Hi All, I am interested in special features that perform PC avalability to
Blinds. I created a big, as I hope, event to pick up some money to gift
an informatic school-room to Blinds Institute of Milan.
The Professional Categories soccer teams of Milan will play in a special
cup leage to collect money for this gift.
In this way Barristers, Ingegneers, Judges, Bocconi's Professors, Pressmen,
Young Enterpreneurs, "Notai", and others of Milan mean solidarity to Blind
Poeple.
For that reasons, I need as more as possible informations about price, capabili
ties and avalabilities of special features for blinds in Personal Computing.
I read there are screen readers, for windows also, different from IBM Screen
Reader, where I could buy them? Which is their prices? What means screen reader
in your mind, a syntetic voice speaker or a small keyboard controlling the part
 of screen readed?
These are only few of the questions I have to ask for, please contact me.

_______________________________________________________________________________
  Alberto A. Villa       Quantitative Methods Institute   (IMQ)
  "Luigi Bocconi" Business University of Milan      Italy
  via Sarfatti, 25, 20136 milano italy
ph. 0039-2-5836.5126 (personal) .5121 or .5122 (secretaries) .5130 (fax)
E-mail address: villavm.uni-bocconi.it



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Subject: Re: Retinitis Pigmentosa
From: Nicolas.Graner@lri.fr

> From: jdixon@tulsa.com (John Dixon)
>
> I have Retinitis Pegmentosa and I am looking for other folks
> with retinal degenerative diseases to help with a National
> Project (USA).

You can meet over 200 people interested in RP and other retinal
degenerations by joining the RPlist mailing list. Send the line:
        SUBSCRIBE RPLIST your name
to LISTSERV@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU.

Please contact me if you have any question or problem regarding RPlist
or retinal degenerations.

Nicolas Graner
RPlist maintainer



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Subject: Re: Blind News Digest # 1144
From: eikeim@lilac.nhsl.lib.nh.us (EILEEN KEIM)

Another recordkeeping/financial program that will produce checks is
MANAGING YOUR MONEY, which has the finance guru Andrew tobias as its lead
figure.  Usually, the current edition is $39.95.  Older editions get
cheaper - try one of the big chain bookstores.  There is a related program
for doing income taxes called TaxCut (year) that will pull data out of MYM
& plug it into the appropriate slots.  What next, huh?  Eileen Keim



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Subject: postscript to ascii
From: bkennedy@cutlass.aug5.com (William \)

                         Bud Kennedy
                         internet: bkennedy@cutlass.aug5.com

                         phone: (412) 553-2849
                         fax: (412) 553-5652

Does anyone know of a program that takes postscript files and converts them to
plain ascii?



          Bud Kennedy




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Subject: braille printers
From: bkennedy@cutlass.aug5.com (William \)

                         Bud Kennedy
                         internet: bkennedy@cutlass.aug5.com

                         phone: (412) 553-2849
                         fax: (412) 553-5652

After 10 years, my VTEK Mboss1 has given up the ghost.  I am going to purchase
another braille printer and would like some input about these printers and the
experience that people have had with them.



          bud Kennedy




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Subject: Conveying graphics information from a computer screen
From: gjb@brain.physics.swin.oz.au (Greg Burgess)


I am a Masters research student, working on developing a device which is
intended to represent the screen of a PC, in the region around the
cursor.  I am familiar with products such as WinVision, which give voice
output of text and standard Windows elements such as menus and dialog
boxes.

What I would like to know is whether there already exist any products which
can give some sort of output based directly on the screen,
enabling a user to examine an object such as a simple graph.  I am
thinking of something like an electronic Braille unit, where the pins
represent pixels.

Also, do people feel that this is a useful goal?



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