Braille Authority of North America Board Meeting
Monday, March 20, 2023, 1:00 P.M. Eastern Time
1. Call to Order: Jen Goulden
Jen called the meeting to order at 1:09 P.M. Eastern Time.
2. Roll call: Amber Pearcy
The following board members were in attendance:
- Jen Goulden, CNIB (Canadian National Institute for the Blind), Chair
- Mary Nelle McLennan, Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER), Vice Chair
- Amber Pearcy, National Braille Press (NBP), Secretary
- Danette Johnson, Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Treasurer
- Marie Zaldivar, Alternate Text Production Center (ATPC)
- Judy Dixon, American Council of the Blind (ACB)
- Frances Mary (FM) D'Andrea, American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
- Kyle DeJute, American Printing House for the Blind (APH)
- Tracy Gaines, California Transcribers and Educators for the Blind and Visually Impaired (CTEBVI)
- Guy Toles, Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation (CIDI)
- Tina Seger, Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired
- Diane Spence, National Braille Association (NBA)
- Jennifer Dunnam, National Federation of the Blind (NFB)
- Wendy Buckley, Perkins School for the Blind
- Susan (Sue) Reilly, Administrative Assistant
- Aqinas Pather, associate member Allyant
- Holly Bullock, associate member Crawford Technologies, Inc.
- Tamara Rorie, National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress (NLS)
Not attending:
3. Approval of Minutes from the February 2023 Meeting: Amber Pearcy
MSC: Kyle moved and Tracy seconded the approval of the February meeting minutes. Motion carried.
4. Welcome to Aquinas Pather: Jen Goulden
Aquinas has joined as the representative for associate member Allyant.
5. Nemeth Code Update: Jennifer Dunnam
File turnover was completed in February. There are a few minor corrections that the committee would like to address with Publications.
Kyle asked on behalf of APH when the updated Nemeth Code would be ready to sell, as APH would like to decide when to stop selling the 1972 version. No date of document completion can be given at this time, but Kyle will be provided with an update within the next few weeks.
6. Tactile Graphics Update: Mary Nelle McLennan, Diane Spence
The remediation of the files is in progress.
Diane needs information from Kyle about to whom, where, and when to send the supplement files.
7. Chemistry Update: Frances Mary D’Andrea
A few corrections had to be made to Section 10 so that the files could be embossed. The corrected Section 10 should be sent out to the committee in the second week of April.
8. General Committee on UEB: Wendy Buckley
MSC: Jennifer moved and FM seconded the submission of the GCUEB recommendation regarding strike through symbols for consideration by ICEB. Motion carried.
MSC: Jennifer moved and FM seconded the submission of the GCUEB's recommendation regarding vertical juxtaposition to ICEB for consideration. Motion carried.
MSC: Kyle moved and FM seconded the submission of the GCUEB's recommendation on Grade 1 mode, as described in Guidelines for Technical Material 11.3, for consideration by ICEB. Motion carried.
Jen will submit these recommendations to ICEB.
9. Business Card Guidance: Tina Seger, Jen Goulden
Tina has added some examples and made some changes to The BANA fact sheet, Guidelines for Brailling business Cards. Jen and Guy have the document to review. The task force has a meeting planned for this week.
10. Spring Meeting: Jen Goulden
A press release will need to be written to announce location and dates of the spring meeting.
Tamara sent detailed information to the board regarding hotel, transportation, meeting location, and evening activities.
11. Next Meeting: Jen Goulden
We will not have a meeting in April because it will be so close to the spring meeting.
12. ICEB: Frances Mary D’Andrea
ICEB has appointed a new Code Maintenance Officer: Matthew Horspool from the UK.
13. Adjournment: Jen Goulden
Jen adjourned the meeting at 1:59 P.M. Eastern Time.
Respectfully submitted,
Amber Pearcy
April 13, 2023