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 available in the Learning Management System (LMS) for current NBA members; you can also find the webinar archive on our website. To watch a recording, just sign in to the LMS with your credentials, navigate to the skills area that interests you, select your course, and get started! If you’re not a member and want access to our training videos, check out this page to learn more 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 the LMS offers this service for our archived recordings. To turn on Closed Captioning, use the button in the toolbar with a “CC” in the square.
Unified English Braille Technical
Superscripts and Subscripts, Part 2
Presenter: James Williams, Chair, Unified English Braille Technical Committee
Date: Wednesday, September 16 at 1:00p ET
Description: We will continue exploring section 7 of the UEB Guidelines for Technical Material (GTM), which addresses Superscripts and Subscripts. This second session will focus on sections 7.5 through 7.9. We will begin with a review of the definition of an item and continue with the following topics: negative superscripts, simultaneous superscripts and subscripts, left-displaced superscripts or subscripts, and modifiers directly above or below. This is the next webinar in the series exploring the GTM one small section at a time.
Skill Level: Beginner
Computer-Assisted Transcription
Making eBraille with Duxbury and the BRF to eBRL Converter
Presenter: Willow Free, Member, Computer-Assisted Transcription Committee
Date: Thursday, September 24 at 1:00p ET
Description: This webinar will show participants the basics of creating eBraille files with Duxbury and the BRF to eBRL Converter. Duxbury support launched in August 24, 2026 and requires version 15.1 or later. The BRF to eBRL Converter latest update improves both tagging and formatting of eBraille files and launches at the beginning of September 2026. Having access to either Duxbury 15.1 or the latest BRF to eBRL Converter is not required to benefit from the webinar.
Skill Level: Beginner
Unified English Braille Literary
The Rules of Unified English Braille: Section 11
Presenter: Julie Sumwalt, Member, Unified English Braille Literary Committee
Date: Friday, September 25th at 12:30p ET
Description: Continuing our tour of The Rules of Unified English Braille, Section 11 is about technical material as it occurs within literary context. The webinar is a brief overview of things such as signs of operation and arrows in nontechnical texts.
Skill Level: Beginner