ABA online workshop – apostrophes and quotation marks

The Australian Braille Authority is pleased to offer a series of online workshops.

The first workshop topic is “Quotes and apostrophes: using smart quotes in Word to ensure correct braille” and it will was conducted by Kathy Riessen.

The workshop was held on Thursday 18th June at 1pm AEST (12.30 pm SA and NT, 11 am WA, and 3 pm NZ and is expected to run for 90 minutes.

The workshop was designed to be as hands-on as much as possible. You can either just watch the demonstration OR if you have access to a second screen or another computer running Word you can try out the processes demonstrated for yourself.

This will be the first in a series of workshops planned in response to the restrictions of COVID-19 and the cancellation of this year’s Round Table Conference. Please contact us if you would like to suggest a topic for a future workshop.

Update

The materials used for demonstration purposes in the workshop and the slides are now available from our Braille Transcription page. The workshop recording is available for viewing on YouTube.

Presenters

Kathy Riessen presented the workshop. A member of the ABA Executive, the Coordinator of Accessible Format Production at South Australian School for Vision Impaired (SASVI) and the newly appointed Chair of ICEB’s Unified English Braille Code Maintenance Committee, Kathy has 30 years of experience in braille transcription of literary material, mathematics, music and languages. She loves solving technical braille problems and has generously shared her know-how and solutions through numerous workshops. She was co-editor of the UEB Australian Training Manual, a member of the working group that produced ABA’s DBT Producer’s Manual, and has contributed to numerous other braille guidelines and references.

The workshop was hosted by Leona Holloway, ABA’s Correspondence Secretary and Australia’s representative to the International Council on English Braille.

Hattie Douglass moderated the workshop.

Notes on using Zoom

If you have not used Zoom before, please familiarise yourself with the mute/unmute and chat functions as there will be time for questions at the end of the workshop.

Some recommended resources on accessibility in Zoom: