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

[Joshua Lester]

I'm all for a unified Braille code.
That code, is the Nemeth Code!
Leave it alone!
Blessings, Joshua

On 9/10/11, Nicole B. Torcolini at Home <ntorcolini at wavecable.com> wrote:
> [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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