Scotland

RNIB Scotland Transcription Centre

Summary: Transcribing printed material into accessible formats for people with sight problems.

• Helping you deliver your message
• DAISY technology
• National Educational Transcription Service
• Volunteering
• Contact us

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Helping you deliver your message

Our service

We can provide information in the following formats:

• audio – cassette, CD, CD-ROM, Daisy CD
• braille
• computer disk
• large print
• Moon
• tactile diagrams

Our clients

Our clients include individuals, charities, businesses and government agencies. We work with people who:

• are unable to access normal printed material because of a sight problem.
• want to make their own material more widely accessible to clients, customers and staff.

Costs

Our service is free to individuals, but we do have a pricing system for organisations. Please contact us for details.

For braille, large print and Moon, it is helpful if you can provide the document in an electronic form (such as on disk or in an email). This makes the price lower and the turnaround time faster.

DAISY technology

DAISY is a CD based portable technology which provides a high level of rapid navigation and which can deliver information audibly and visually at the same time. It can be used at school or home and allows blind and partially sighted pupils to have access to the same materials as their sighted colleagues, at the same time. The technology has the advantage of being inclusive and can be used alongside sighted students.

RNIB Scotland secured Scottish Executive funding for an expanded trial of the innovative in schools colleges and universities. DAISY enables blind and partially sighted students to read the same books at the same time as their sighted classmates.

National Educational Transcription Service

The outcome of the trial has been published as a report ‘If I can’t read it, I can’t learn it’ which also calls for the setting up of a national educational transcription service.

Volunteering

You can help as a volunteer at the Transcription Centre.

Contact us

Please contact us for further information or to discuss your requirements. Our office is located off Dumbarton Road near Partick subway station. There are good bus and train links.

RNIB Scotland Transcription Centre
17 Gullane Street
Glasgow G11 6AH

Telephone: 0141 337 2955
Fax: 0141 357 4025
email: glasgowtrans@rnib.org.uk

Content author: mike.brown@rnib.org.uk

Last updated: 20/11/2008 11:13