[Blindmath] UEB again (was Braille code urgency)

[Michael Whapples]

One thing which has come out of this for me is that UEB certainly has some issues, and had I been aware of the proposal of introducing UEB in the UK and how to have provided comments as well as knowing what I do now know about UEB I probably would have opposed it. However should those in the US decide to oppose it and make comments, then all I would suggest is make arguments which make sense (eg. the issue of not having one for one mapping in computer code) rather than false ones like number signs make anything but the simplest maths unworkable in Braille (I shove those to one side as I know them to be false from experience, so might others).

Michael Whapples
On 4 Dec 2011, at 23:28, Susan Jolly wrote:

> There are some good suggestions here about how to design an improved code.  Meanwhile it is too late in the UK as the UEB has already just been adopted there and it may soon be too late here in the US if the rumors are true.  So the immediate action item for concerned US braille users is to figure out how to prevent BANA from making any changes at the present time.
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> Please remember that while adult braille readers like many of this list's posters may have the flexibility to select what works best for them, braille learners are taught according to what the braille authorities require.  In the case of the UEB this means one-for-one "computer braille" is not allowed.
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