December 2024 Webinars
Join us this month for these three free webinars!
These webinars are entirely free to anyone and don’t require registration. As long as you have an internet connection, you can click the join link below each description a few minutes before start time, and you’re in! These are intended to run short, so the content portion is typically around 15 minutes long, and then there’s a few minutes for any questions. We want you to be able to learn some new tricks without having to take a lot of time out of your busy day!
We hope you’ll be able to join us live, but if you can’t, remember that we record all our webinars. Those recordings are housed in the archive, and are available to current NBA members. If you want to watch later, just sign in with your member account, navigate to the skills area you’re looking for, and hit play! If you’re not a member and want access to training videos, checkout this page for more info about membership.
Our live webinars and archived recordings have Closed Captioning available for those who would like it. Google Meet provides this for our live webinars and Vimeo provides this service for our hosted recordings. To turn on Closed Captioning, use the button in the tool bar with a “CC” in the square.
Computer Assisted Transcription
How eBraille Makes Braille
Presenter: Willow Free, Vice Chair, Computer Assisted Transcription Committee
Date: Thursday, December 5th at 1:00p ET
Description: We released the eBraille spec back in August and now we have released the Best Practices. These documents will help developers create the software that will support this new document standard. It covers the styles of braille and how to create their formatting. We need feedback from transcribers about these documents. Please join for an overview and how you can get involved in the creation of eBraille!
Nemeth Code For Math And Science
Formatting in Nemeth – A Basic Overview
Presenter: Shawn Greiner, Member, Nemeth Code For Math And Science Committee
Date: Wednesday, December 18th at 12:30p ET
Description: The rules for formatting in Nemeth Code can be a bit confusing, especially for the inexperienced transcriber. This webinar will introduce a single-page go-to for formatting Narrative text, Displayed Expressions, Linked Expressions, and Itemized text with and without subdivisions. If you ever had any questions about formatting in Nemeth code, this webinar and the accompanying single-page cheat sheet will become invaluable.
Unified English Braille Literary
The Rules of Unified English Braille, Section 4
Presenter: Julie Sumwalt, Chair, Unified English Braille Literary Committee
Date: Monday, December 23rd at 12:30p ET
Description: Section 4 of The Rules of Unified English Braille 2013 addresses “Letters and Their Modifiers.” We will touch on Greek letters and the German “sharp s” or “eszett,” and we will spend time with modifiers and ligatured (or connected) letters as well as the “eng” and the “schwa.”