[Ohio-talk] Fw: Nfb-announce Digest, Vol 100, Issue 4

[Deborah Kendrick]

In the event that some members on Ohio Talk may not have received this 
message, please read below.  This is an important historic event for braille 
readers in America.

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>   1. Fwd: [BANA-Announce] BANA Adopts Unified English Braille
>      (UEB) for United States (David Andrews)
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> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 19:15:07 -0600
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> Subject: [Nfb-announce] Fwd: [BANA-Announce] BANA Adopts Unified
> English Braille (UEB) for United States
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>>Press Release
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>>November 2012
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>>For Immediate Release
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>>CONTACT: Frances Mary D'Andrea, Chair
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>>Braille Authority of North America
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>>Phone: 412-521-5797
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>>Email: <mailto:literacy2 at mindspring.com>literacy2 at mindspring.com
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>>BANA Adopts Unified English Braille (UEB) for United States
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>>On November 2, 2012, the Braille Authority of North America (BANA)
>>set a new course for the future of braille in the United States
>>(U.S.) when it adopted Unified English Braille (UEB). The motion,
>>which passed decisively, specifies that UEB will eventually replace
>>the current English Braille American Edition and that the U.S. will
>>retain the Nemeth Code for Mathematics and Science Notation.
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>>The transition to UEB will not be immediate and will follow a
>>carefully crafted timeline. Implementation plans will be formulated
>>with the input and participation of stakeholders from the consumer,
>>education, rehabilitation, transcription, and production
>>communities. Plans will take into consideration the various aspects
>>of creating, teaching, learning, and using braille in a wide variety
>>of settings. The plans will be designed to provide workable
>>transitions for all involved in braille use and production and to
>>minimize disruption for current braille readers.
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>>UEB is based on the current literary braille code and was developed
>>with input from many people, primarily braille readers, who worked
>>to achieve an optimal balance among many key factors. Those factors
>>include keeping the general-purpose literary code as its base,
>>allowing the addition of new symbols, providing flexibility for
>>change as print changes, reducing the complexity of rules, and
>>allowing greater accuracy in back translation.
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>>Letters and numbers will stay the same as they are in the current
>>literary code. There will be some changes to punctuation, but most
>>will remain the same. Some rules for the use of contractions will
>>change. Nine contractions will be eliminated, and some contractions
>>will be used more often. A FAQ providing more detail about changes
>>is available on the BANA website.
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>>After implementation, the official braille codes for the United
>>States will be Unified English Braille; Nemeth Code for Mathematics
>>and Science Notation, 1972 Revision and published updates; Music
>>Braille Code, 1997; and The IPA Braille Code, 2008.
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>>More detailed information about UEB and the motion that BANA passed
>>can be found on the BANA website at
>><http://www.brailleauthority.org/>www.brailleauthority.org.
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>>The Board of BANA consists of appointed representatives from fifteen
>>member organizations of braille producers, transcribers, teachers,
>>and consumers.
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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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