Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Braille Standards


Various Braille standards have been developed and switching from one to another requires considerable experience in each.

This TOOL will "translate" the Braille into a standard of choice!


All that the user needs to do is ACTIVATE a software SWITCH, and in many cases, voila! The Braille system will behave according to what the user's preferences. For example, a user who wants to use the Nemeth Code will simply activate the software switch for that standard. The same goes one who prefers Gardner-Salinas, or Unicode Braille Patterns (coding is in accordance with ISO/TR 11548-1 Communication aids for blind persons), or BANA.

Various Links Related to Braille Standards, Representations, Patterns, etc.
  1. https://nfb.org/factsaboutblindnessintheus (Statistical Facts about Blindness in the United States)
  2. http://www.worldblindunion.org/English/Pages/default.aspx (The World Blind Union (WBU) is the global organization representing the estimated 285 million people worldwide who are blind or partially sighted. Members are organizations of and for the blind in 190 countries, as well as international organizations working in the field of vision impairment.)
  3. http://www.iceb.org/ubc.html (International Council on English Braille (ICEB), Unified English Braille Code (UEBC) Research Project)
  4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemeth_Braille
  5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardner_Salinas_braille
  6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille
  7. http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=3726342&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=2 (CANADA, 40th PARLIAMENT, 2nd SESSION, Standing Committee on Official Languages)
  8. http://www.brailleauthority.org/tg/web-manual/index.html (Guidelines and Standards for Tactile Graphics, 2010 - Developed as a Joint Project of the Braille Authority of North America and the Canadian Braille Authority L'Autorité Canadienne du Braille)
  9. http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/se/sr/documents/braillereadstand.pdf (Braille Reading Standards)
  10. http://www.brailleauthority.org/update07/update07.html (BANA Braille Codes Update 2007)
  11. http://www.tiresias.org/research/links.htm
  12. http://projectaspiro.com/en/service-providers/Pages/default.aspx
  13. http://www.brailleauthority.org/update-cbc10/cbc-specialsymbolsupdate2010.pdf (Computer Braille Code (CBC) Update 2010 - Special Symbols Page)
  14. http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2800.pdf (Braille Patterns)
  15. http://www.icevi.org/pdf/educator_january_2009.pdf (The International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment)
  16. http://www.abledata.com/abledata_docs/Braille_Writers_Printers_Software.htm (Fact Sheet on Braille Writers, Printers and Software)
  17. http://www.ukaaf.org/bauk-site/docs/bcnn.pdf (Braille Computer Code)
  18. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindness (Blindness)
  19. http://www.brailleauthority.org/research-ueb/rrtc-ueb-pilotstudy2003.pdf (Literary Unified English Braille Code versus Standard Braille: A Pilot Study Comparing Experienced Braille Readers Reading Rates, Miscues, and Regressions)
  20. http://www.brl.org/ebae/ (English Braille: American Edition 1994)