The program is almost 100% ready to be center to the printer. I can send it to you tomorrow, if you would like.
Regards, James Hare On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Graham Pearce <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I sent this message to the Wikimania info email last week but haven't yet > received a reply. > > Regards, Graham > -------- Original Message -------- Subject: braille copy of program Date: > Sun, 17 Jun 2012 17:02:53 +0800 From: Graham Pearce > <[email protected]><[email protected]> To: > [email protected] > > Hello, > > I'm User:Graham87 on Wikipedia, and as it says on my user page there, > I'm totally blind:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Graham87 > > I'll be attending Wikimania this year as one of the representatives of > Wikimedia Australia. I'd like a braille copy of the printed program, so > I can follow along with it like everybody else. Converting computer > files into braille is not a difficult process, but it does require > specialised (and ridiculously expensive!) equipment to emboss the > braille dots and bind the books, so braille production agencies like > people to submit material to them some time in advance (generally about > a week). When will the program be in its final form, so it can be sent > somewhere to be brailled? I can think of a couple of ways of doing this: > *If the program will be ready by Tuesday week (the 27th of June), I can > send it to my local Association for the Blind and they can braille it at > no cost to me. The date gives them about a week's notice while I can > still pick it up (I'll be leaving on the 5th of July). > *If it'll be ready after then, could you arrange for it to be brailled > by a place in Washington DC? The Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind > sounds like as good a place as any:http://www.clb.org/braille-production > > It will cost some money if it's done this way, however, but I have no > idea how much. > > Thanks! > > Regards, Graham > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >
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