[blindkid] code changes
David Andrews
dandrews at visi.com
Sun Dec 22 00:50:44 UTC 2013
The Braille Authority is actually the Braille Authority of North
America. There is an international organization, whoes name I can't
quite remember at the moment.
The U.S. has decided to adopt UEB, the Unified English Braille code,
most of the other english-speaking countries have already done
so. It is somewhat different, but not that much. Some contractions
are dropped, and some used slightly differently, but existing Braille
readers will have no problems reading it. Also, we are not
eliminating Nemeth, it will still be used for math and science in the u.s.
Dave
At 06:22 PM 12/21/2013, you wrote:
>Apparently, there is an international coalition for some English
>speaking nations called the Braille Authority.
>They came up with this Unified English Braille (UEB) to work for
>English speaking nations. Their website is
>http://www.brailleauthority.org/ and there you will find, on the
>home page, a link for "Find out more about Unified English Braille
>(UEB). It seems like they are doing away with Nemith and replacing
>alot of symbols.
>
>On 12/21/2013 6:10 PM, hpscheffer at aol.com wrote:
>>Hi, has anyone heard of the braille code changes that are proposed
>>and will happen in 2016? I like to get information about it, I
>>understand it is the Braille Authority, and another question who is
>>the Braille Authority and who made them an Authority?
>>I want to get educated about all of this, if any of you has info it
>>would be a good place to start. I'm surprised this has not come up on the list.
>>
>>
>>Heidi
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