Fwd: braille copy of program - Wikimania-l

26 Jun 2012

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 &lt;grahamwp(a)jazi.net&gt;
To: 	wikimania-info(a)wikimedia.org

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