I have an old embosser (it uses a parallel port!), the software to match, and more paper than I could even try to shake a stick at. If we wanted to get serious about making this kind of a pamphlet, I could probably do that part without to much trouble (I suspect Google would be able to answer all my questions on how to make the thing go). I don't have any real contacts within blindness organizations (and know nothing about shipping outside of the U.S), but I can do the brailing, and then cheer at the (slightly) greater amount of storage space I've got.
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Thomas Ward" [email protected] Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 9:04 To: "Gamers Discussion list" [email protected] Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Braille/large print/other media (was audio games,game engine) Hi Jeremy, The only problem here is that such a pamphlet is not relatively expensive. As I mentioned yesterday in one of my posts the startup costs for such a venture would be rather expensive assuming the person doing the braille embossing had to purchase the braille embosser, braille translation software, and of course the paper required to produce the pamphlets. One might get a bit of financial break on shipping if they are able to ship it via free matter for the blind, but that is not always a guarantee in all places. Point being that my primary concern here with such a venture is the bottom line to get this started, and how much is each developer willing to toss into the till to see this gets done assuming organizations would be willing to redistribute it to their clients. Cheers! On 6/19/15, Jeremy Brown [email protected] wrote: Dark, I understood your original intent, but I think you misunderstood mine somewhat. What I was proposing was just such an introductory pamphlet. It would be defrayed by a consortium of developers, distributed free through the organizations (assuming they would do so) and would have a list of contributors and their home page link. That's all. No hard sale, just a list of contacts. If I read such a piece as you describe I'd want to know how to find such things. Such a brief description and a list of contributors could be perhaps no more than 5 pages of braille, would be relatively inexpensive to produce, and would give each contributor a chance to get their name out. I have to admit, I said ad space, but I was thinking more in lines of contact info. Anything much more than that, and you'd be likely to either lose your audience or never get it to them through the organizational roadblocks. I think Dentin's comments earlier are an important indicator in this line: we'd have to sell this to the organizations as both a. helping visually impaired entrepreneurs and b. providing a quality of life improvement to some of their members in terms of accessible recreation. While the organizations for the blind generally promote political action and/or community support for visual impairment, most of them also pay lip service to both of the above goals. Take care, Jeremy -- In the fight between you and the world--back the world! Frank Zapa --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
