[Blindtlk] Fwd: [nabs-l] BANA still considering abolishing the Nemeth braille code

[chris nusbaum]

FYI...

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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:10:30 -0700
Subject: [nabs-l] BANA still considering abolishing the Nemeth braille code
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[Blindmath] BANA still considering abolishing the Nemeth braille code
Susan Jolly easjolly at ix.netcom.com
Fri Sep 9 17:10:37 CDT 2011

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I have just recieved my copy of the Summer 2011 Bulletin of the National
Braille Association (NBA) which is the professional organization providing
continuing education to both paid and volunteer braille transcribers here in
the United States. The President's Message states, "At some point in the
near future, the braille powers-that-be will make a decision about a unified
braille code for the English-speaking worlds--a code that will combine
literary and technical transcriptions under one set of rules and
constructions."

Elsewhere in this issue of the Bulletin, the NBA representive to the Braille
Authority of North America (BANA) writes that the BANA "Education and
Outreach committee is still reviewing the possibility of a universal code."
Note that the next meeting of BANA will be held November 3-6, 2011 and will
be hosted in the Baltimore area by the NFB.

If you believe as I do that the BAUK-like representation of maths in the
current proposals for a unified code are significantly inferior to the
Nemeth code's representation of mathematics, you might want to take action
now.

Wouldn't it be ironic if the US were to abolish the use of the Nemeth code
just as it is being widely adopted in countries such as India and Indonesia
which have larger populations of braille users?

Sincerely,
SusanJ



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