[NFB-Braille-Discussion] BRF Files and Audio

[Jasmyn Po]

You can also get free braille books from the American Action Fund for blind children and adults and National Library talking book Services lets you borrow braille books for free of course you have to send them back but is this a great program because you can get any bread book you want. National Federation of the blind also lets you order there Braille monitor magazine in Braille as well. I have a lot of Braille monitors in Braille to practice my Braille skills. I have used both programs and they have been helpful in me and proving my Braille reading skills. I've read a lot of things in Braille from Ray Charles, glaucoma, vision problems, Green Eggs and Ham by dr. Seuss, Emily Dickinson's poems, and more because of these two programs I didn't have to pay money for! I recommend it to any blind adult or child to use in order to practice their Braille skills!

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  On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 3:09 PM, Michael Cantino via NFB-Braille-Discussion<nfb-braille-discussion at nfbnet.org> wrote:   This is not a solution, but a possible alternative.

If you want to listen to the text read aloud and read the corresponding
braille in Grade 1, you can do this using more common file types (like PDF,
Word documents, or web pages) by using your iPhone, VoiceOver (the iPhone’s
screen reader), and your braille display.

I’m going to assume that you already have your braille display connected to
your phone and that you’re utilizing VoiceOver. If that’s not the case,
send me an email, and I can give you some directions for setting that up.
In your VoiceOver settings, under Braille, you can change the Output to
“Uncontracted Six-dot Braille”. Once this is set, VoiceOver will display
Grade 1 braille on your braille display for anything it reads aloud.

You can also change your braille output settings with a command on your
braille display, if you don’t want to go into your VoiceOver settings. To
enter this command, hold down the space bar on your braille display and
then enter the braille letter G on the braille keys (Dot 1 + Dot 2 + Dot 4
+ Dot 5 + Space bar). Repeat this command until you hear “Uncontracted
Six-dot Braille”.

This doesn’t address the issue of having BRF content read aloud, but this
is a useful approach that will give you similar access to a wider variety
of documents and file types. I hope that’s helpful!

Michael Cantino (he/him)
BVIS Technology Professional Development Specialist
Northwest Regional Education Service District
(503)614-1339
Check out the BVIS Tech website
<https://sites.google.com/nwresd.k12.or.us/bvistech/home> to find helpful
resources!
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