Judith,
Many years ago we ran a course for VIP where we produced raised
hieroglyphics. Do contact me off list if you would like any more details.

Claire

--On 06 November 2003 18:03 +0000 Keith Silvester <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>
> I can't tell the difference between braille and hieroglyphics anyway!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Judith Jesky [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 05 November 2003 11:27
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: publishers' alternative formats
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> We have received an enquiry from a braille user who is interested in
> studying Egyptology. Has anyone experience of supporting a course that
> includes the use of hieroglyphics and how accessible it is?
> Judith Jesky
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff.
> Sent: 11/5/2003 10:56 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: publishers' alternative formats
>
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>
> Dear David,
> Our transcription Centre (Regional Transcription Centre, APU) has set up
> a procedure to obtain electronic versions of text books for transcription
> purposes. We send a form to the publisher, which guarantee's to produce
> the book in an accessible format such as Braille or large print and that
> we will keep the electronic disks under lock and key. We have found that
> if the electronic versions are available, then, publishers are generally
> helpful in supplying the disks, as long as we only produce one copy.
> Perhaps its because we are a transcription centre that we find it
> relatively easy?
> Steve Carey.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Pollak
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 9:34 AM
> Subject: publishers' alternative formats
>
>
>
> I've just heard of a dyslexic student here at DMU who complained to a
> large American publisher of computing books that a certain book was very
> hard for him to access. He listed the issues, including the font and
> paper colour. At first they said there was nothing they could do; then he
> received by post a copy of the whole (large) book, enlarged onto white A3
> paper.
>
> That would have been a little more effective if they had used coloured
> paper, as the student had told them which colour he found most
> comfortable, but at least it was a gesture.
>
> Has anyone else had experience of asking publishers for accommodations? I
> realise that providing electronic copies is unattractive to them for
> copyright reasons, although in some ways that would be an answer. As my
> work is restricted to dyslexia-related issues, I'm hoping that colleagues
> who are, or work with, the partially sighted can offer information here.
>
> David Pollak
>
> De Montfort University
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Claire Wickham,
Director: Centre for Access and Communication Studies
University of Bristol
Union Building
Queen's Road
Clifton
Bristol BS8 1LN

Tel: 0117 954 5710/5705
Textphone: 0117 954 5715
Fax: 0117 954 5714

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