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From: David Andrews
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Subject: [Pibe-division] Fwd: [BANA-Announce] BANA Affirms Date for 
Implementation of UEB




  Press Release



  November 2013



  For Immediate Release


  CONTACT: Frances Mary D'Andrea, Chair

  Braille Authority of North America

  Phone: 412-521-5797

  Email: literacy2 at mindspring.com


  BANA Affirms Date for Implementation of UEB


  The Braille Authority of North America (BANA), at its November 8-10 
meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, affirmed January 4, 2016, as the date by 
which the United States will implement the general use of Unified English 
Braille (UEB). This action was based on a year of dialogue and planning that 
included the UEB Transition Forum, held on October 16. The forum, which 
involved 48 delegates representing 31 organizations from the braille 
community, was structured to help organizations craft the steps and 
timetable through which the United States will make an effective transition 
to Unified English Braille.

  The decision to adopt UEB in the United States was made by a decisive vote 
of the BANA Board on November 2, 2012. The full motion is posted on the BANA 
website at http://www.brailleauthority.org/ueb/UEBpassed.html.

  BANA recognizes that the implementation of UEB will require major 
adjustments to the infrastructures that produce, deliver, and teach braille, 
as well as time and strategies for braille users to become familiar with 
changes in the code. BANA continues to work with leaders throughout the 
field to build a carefully designed timeline and coordinated plan. Detailed 
timelines are under development by individual organizations, and transition 
efforts are now being initiated. BANA stands ready to collaborate with the 
braille community as it builds and adapts the infrastructure necessary for a 
smooth transition to UEB.

  NOTE: This press release is available in HTML on the BANA website at 
http://www.brailleauthority.org/pressreleases/pr-2013-11-26.html.



  For additional resource information, visit www.brailleauthority.org .

  The Board of BANA consists of appointed representatives from seventeen 
member organizations of braille producers, transcribers, teachers, and 
consumers.

  The mission of the Braille Authority of North America is to assure 
literacy for tactile readers through the standardization of braille and/or 
tactile graphics.



  The purpose of BANA is to promote and to facilitate the uses, teaching, 
and production of braille. Pursuant to this purpose, BANA will promulgate 
rules, make interpretations, and render opinions pertaining to braille codes 
and guidelines for the provisions of literary and technical materials and 
related forms and formats of embossed materials now in existence or to be 
developed in the future for the use of blind persons in North America. When 
appropriate, BANA shall accomplish these activities in international 
collaboration with countries using English braille. In exercising its 
function and authority, BANA shall consider the effects of its decisions on 
other existing braille codes and guidelines, forms and formats; ease of 
production by various methods; and acceptability to readers.








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