April 2025 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.
Braille Formats/Textbook
One is Best: Keep Together Over Blank Lines
Presenter: Kimberly Martin, Member, Braille Formats/Textbook Committee
Date: Monday, April 14th at 1:00p ET
Description: This webinar will review several formatting styles in which Braille Formats recommends to keep material together on one braille page when possible. We’ll also discuss options for when this isn’t possible.
Skill Level: Beginner
Nemeth Code For Math And Science
A Logical Approach to Transcribing a Simple Flowchart
Presenter: Lindy Walton, Member, Nemeth Code For Math And Science Braille
Date: Wednesday, April 16th at 2:00p ET
Description: During this 30-minute webinar I will walk through the basics of transcribing a flowchart. The approach is based on the 1991 BANA supplement, with certain changes deemed necessary in a UEB transcription. After demonstrating the method in UEB, code switching considerations will be added as I analyze a UEB with Nemeth transcription.
Skill Level: Intermediate
World Languages Braille
Recent Changes to Braille Formats 2016 Relating to Transcription of Non-English Material
Presenter: Anna Werner, Chair, World Languages Braille Committee
Date: Tuesday, April 22nd at 12:00p ET
Description: In 2024 BANA released the document “Changes to Foreign Language Sections of Braille Formats: Principles of Print-to-Braille Transcription, 2016.” This webinar will review which Braille Formats guidelines have changed with the publication of this document and what has stayed the same.
Please note that this webinar will run approximately 30 minutes.
Skill Level: Beginner