[nfbcs] Fwd: [BANA-Announce] BANA December 2010 Release

[David Andrews]

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>Braille Authority of North America
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>PRESS RELEASE
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>December 2010
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>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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>CONTACT: Judith Dixon, Chairperson
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>Braille Authority of North America
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>PHONE: 1-202-707-0722
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>E-MAIL: <mailto:jdix at loc.gov>jdix at loc.gov
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>Computer Braille Code (CBC) Update
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>Special Symbols Page
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>The Braille Authority of North America (BANA) announces an update to 
>the Computer Braille Code: 2000 Revision (CBC), Rule 3.3, Symbols.
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>Standard Computer Braille Code symbols, including any symbols that 
>have been devised by the transcriber, should be listed on a "Special 
>Symbols" page. These symbols must be transcribed in accordance with 
>the rules of the Braille Formats: Principles of Print to Braille 
>Transcription (latest edition).
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>In CBC, there are often paired symbols, such as the symbols that 
>begin and end Computer Braille Code. To make the CBC section of the 
>Special Symbols Page more user-friendly, the BANA CBC Technical 
>Committee devised an order in which these symbols should appear on 
>the Special Symbols page no matter what order they appear in the 
>document.  Transcribers may use this order as a checklist when 
>creating a document, making it easier to determine which CBC symbols 
>are included in transcribing a document.
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>This update, including the newly devised ordering of the CBC 
>symbols, is posted on the website of the Braille Authority of North 
>America at <http://www.brailleauthority.org/>http://www.brailleauthority.org.
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>The mission and purpose of the Braille Authority of North America 
>are to assure literacy for tactile readers through the 
>standardization of braille and/or tactile graphics. BANA promotes 
>and facilitates the use, teaching, and production of braille. It 
>publishes rules, interprets and renders opinions pertaining to 
>braille in all existing codes. It deals with codes now in existence 
>or to be developed in the future, in collaboration with other 
>countries using English braille. In exercising its function and 
>authority, BANA considers the effects of its decisions on other 
>existing braille codes and formats; the ease of production by 
>various methods; and acceptability to readers.
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>For additional resource information, visit www.brailleauthority.org
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