[blindkid] code changes

[David Andrews]

The Braille Authority is actually the Braille Authority of North 
America.  There is an international organization, whoes name I can't 
quite remember at the moment.

The U.S. has decided to adopt UEB, the Unified English Braille code, 
most of the other english-speaking countries have already done 
so.  It is somewhat different, but not that much.  Some contractions 
are dropped, and some used slightly differently, but existing Braille 
readers will have no problems reading it.  Also, we are not 
eliminating Nemeth, it will still be used for math and science in the u.s.


Dave

At 06:22 PM 12/21/2013, you wrote:
>Apparently, there is an international coalition for some English 
>speaking nations called the Braille Authority.
>They came up with this Unified English Braille (UEB) to work for 
>English speaking nations.  Their website is 
>http://www.brailleauthority.org/ and there you will find, on the 
>home page, a link for "Find out more about Unified English Braille 
>(UEB).  It seems like they are doing away with Nemith and replacing 
>alot of symbols.
>
>On 12/21/2013 6:10 PM, hpscheffer at aol.com wrote:
>>Hi, has anyone heard of the braille code changes that are proposed 
>>and will happen in 2016? I like to get information about it, I 
>>understand it is the Braille Authority, and another question who is 
>>the Braille Authority and who made them an Authority?
>>I want to get educated about all of this, if any of you has info it 
>>would be a good place to start. I'm surprised this has not come up on the list.
>>
>>
>>Heidi