Can this schedule be read with a computer as well, or must one have a
Braille translator in order to read it?

Londa and Bess
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Mattioli <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 11:13 PM
Subject: FW: making TV more accessible to the blind


>Greetings,
>
>        Last month I posted this message to the ACB list.  This month,
having
>received no reports of major problems, I'm spreading the news a bit more
>widely.  The November schedule is gone and the December schedule has been
>put on the website.  Please feel free to check it out and let me know what
>you think.
>
>John
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>Behalf Of John Mattioli
>Sent: Thursday, November 12, 1998 9:05 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: CCB: making TV more accessible to the blind
>
>
>+== acb-l Message from "John Mattioli" <[log in to unmask]> ==+
>Ladies and gentlemen,
>
>        I am very pleased to announce a new link on the Connecticut Council
of the
>Blind's web page.  This link, right near the top of the page, is a link to
>this month's HBO schedule in grade two braille.  The idea for this project
>came from NLS's WebBraille project.  NLS has published several titles in
>grade two braille files and made them available to a limited distribution
>for trial purposes.  The NLS staff who were in charge of that project
>pronounced it a resounding success and hope to expand it greatly in the
near
>future.
>
>        A few months ago I visited the HBO web site just to see if, per
chance,
>they might publish their schedule.  I was quite pleased to see that the
>schedule is available on the site but is somewhat difficult to navigate.
>With a little work I figured out how to get a full month's schedule.  This
>file is qquite handy, but full of periods and other ornimentation that just

>takes up space.
>
>        As a software engineer, I devoted a couple of hours to developing a
small
>program that reformats the text from this web page and converts it into a
>file that can be read and translated by the Duxbury Braille Translator.
>This program is a Windows Console application, that is it looks and smells
>like a DOS program, but must be run from a DOS box.
>
>        Anyway, to make a short story even shorter, you can now download
the
>November HBO and Cinemax schedules from the following web site:
>
>http://members.tripod.com/~dmclean/ccb.html
>
>        Much thanks to Dave McLean for agreeing to play webmaster for the
>Connecticut Council of the Blind.
>
>        Ok, so what's really in this file?
>
>        The schedule runs from November 1 through November 30.  It contains
>programming for HBO East, HBO Plus East, HBO Signiture East and Max East.
>Those of you in different time zones should feel free to adjust schedule
>times appropriately.
>
>        Although this file is ready for brailling on 25 line by 40
character
>braille paper, I strongly suggest that nobody actually braille it!  This
>particular schedule would be something like 155 pages.  Instead, I suggest
>loading it into your BNS, BLT, or other note taking device that has the
>ability to handle grade two files.  You'll find that this file is 31 BNS
>pages.
>
>        I hope this is useful to people, please send any formatting
questions or
>comments to me at [log in to unmask]  I hope to get the December
>schedule up prior to the beginning of December, but I've noticed that HBO
>doesn't always publish in advance.
>
>        Enjoy,
>
>John
>
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