[Missouri-l] FW: [leadership] NUBS Evaluationat ACB Convention

[Peter Altschul]

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From: Kim Charlson [mailto:kimcharlson at comcast.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 8:52 PM
To: leadership at acb.org; bscb-announce at acb.org
Subject: [leadership] NUBS Evaluationat ACB Convention

Please forward this message to other email lists that might be interested to
spread the word so we can get plenty of Braille reader participants.

 

Thanks

Kim Charlson

 

The Braille Authority of North America (BANA), in response to consumer
requests, is conducting an evaluation of the Nemeth Uniform Braille System
(NUBS). NUBS is an experimental code designed to include literary, math, and
scientific information, combining all three codes into one unified system. 

 

As an initial phase of this evaluation, BANA is recruiting interested
Braille readers who will be attending the American Council of the Blind
(ACB) convention in Orlando between July 6-8, 2009. BANA is looking for a
broad representation of participants--readers of various ages, with
different levels of braille reading experience, and both casual and
professional users of braille.

 

At the convention, selected individuals will take part in sessions examining
the experimental code. Some individuals will be assigned to a group task,
and others to a half-hour individual task.  If an individual is not selected
for the convention tasks, he or she will be welcome to participate in a
later survey

 

 If you are interested in being considered as a participant in this phase,
please send a message to brailleauthority at gmail.com or call 617-926-9198.
You will be asked to fill out a simple demographic questionnaire that will
help BANA determine into which group you fall. From all of the responses
received BANA will create participant groups of similar size. 

 

Thank you for your assistance with this research.


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