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[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: <mailto:literacy2 at mindspring.com>;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>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>http://www.brailleauthority.org/pressreleases/pr-2013-11-26.html. 
> >


> For additional resource information, visit
> <http://www.brailleauthority.org>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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