I could braille up some stuff with my slate and stylus or perkins
brailler on thermoform paper...yes perkins braillers and slates are
great for writing on thermoform. I got a bunch of thermoform paper here
and could buy more if needed.
follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982
On 6/19/2015 10:25 AM, dark wrote:
Hi Tomm.
I do believe the cost to get a number of pamflets printed wouldn't be
quite so insane, sinse after all in the Uk lots of organizations from
theatres to restaurant chains have stuff brailled, heck my bank can
deliver a braille bank statement each month if I wish and I doubt
they'd be paying too much.
It's likely something that needs looking into formally.
Distributing through resellers is a good idea, however my concern is
why should a company send out a free pamflet? and if the pamflet was
not free why would people buy it?
I also have noticed myself that a lot of charitable blindness
organizations in the Uk at least do have quite a bit of promotional
material kicking around both for other services and for commercial
products, so I don't think it'd be asking too much for them to have a
general informational leaflet available as well, plus of course it's
far easier to send free leaflets to say schools for the blind or
meeting groups (sinse hay we might not like them but there are
potentially people interested in games there), than to get them to buy
an informational resource.
Then again there is a way to find out, I wonder how many people have
bought that actual book on Ios accessible games which phil mentioned?
A book is far more information than I was thinkng, but hay if people
are interested in buying it then maybe a paid leaflet on audiogames in
general wouldn't be such a bad thing.
All the best,
Dark.
There is always more to know, more to see, more to learn. The world is
vast and wondrous strange and there are more things benieth the stars
than even the archmaesters of the citadel can dream.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward"
<[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] braille/large print/other media for audio
games (was info games game engines)
Hi Dark,
Okay, I see what you mean about using a third-party braille
transcription service, a good idea, but I'm not sure what something
like that would cost. The only one that comes to mind off the top of
my head in the USA is American Printing House for the Blind, but as I
have never transcribed anything through them personally I haven't a
clue what it would cost to run x number of copies of an informational
pamphlet off for organizations using APH's services. I'm sure it won't
cost as high as buying an embosser, software, paper, etc but at the
same time I could see it costing quite a bit. Unfortunately, braille
is a very expensive medium so it is likely to be a fairly costly
investment regardless of what someone does.
I think what might be a better tact as far as information sharing and
advertising goes is actually create a pamphlet which can be
redistributed through the various blind resellers. I don't know what
you have over in the UK and in Europe but here in the USA there are a
number of well known resellers such as In dependant Living Aids, Maxi
Aids, Light House, and so forth who are in the business of selling
blind products such as canes, Olympus recorders, Jaws, you name it.
Since they are in the business to make money and they have a catalog
which gets shipped out to a lot of blind customers I'd say that would
be the ideal way to advertise. Since companies like Independent Living
Aids, for example, are in the business of making money and are not a
organization they might be more receptive to sponsoring games and
other entertainment products that would fall outside the purview of
organizations.
Cheers!
On 6/19/15, dark <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Tom.
Buy an embosser? that is waaaaay more overkill than I am thinking
here. In
the Uk at least there are braille transcription services that will
spend
their time on printing, it's one way that say a local theatre can get
braille programs, sinse you are correct that braille embossers are
stupidly
expensive.
I don't have a clear idea on costs, sinse it's not something I've
looked
into but I don't believe it's that much, particularly as regards
reproducing
the thing once you've got one printed and then are making copies.
As to people who don't have much to do with the blind community,
well to be
honest I fall into that category marginly myself simply because I
don't find
blindness events or organizations that helpful or that I have much
in common
with a lot of other blind people, ---- though i still do look at the
news
letters just in case anything vaguely interesting comes up, and would
probably pick up a leaflet on something like games.
of course there will be some people who literally don't have
anything at all
with any blindness organization, but you can't cover everyone! my
suggestion
of an intro leaflet was just to let more people know who normally might
not.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
---
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].
---
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].
---
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].
---
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].
