[bookport] Re: Consider supporting UEB
- From: "Tim Noonan" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:14:50 +1100
While I don't profess to be at all an expert on the subject, One of the
strengths of the UEB is to ensure that reverse
translation of braille from Grade 2ASCII is more accurate and reliable.
Since we get quite a few complaints about the confusion of some back
translation on devices like the BookPort, it seems that
Software support of UEB would, indeed, be a positive move.
Tim
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-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Diana Brent
Sent: Thursday, 25 January 2007 12:06 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Consider supporting UEB
In my job as a teacher (primarily in the use of access technology to
braille-using students) I work with braille in a lot of different
ways--qwerty and braille keyboard input, for foreign languages, math and
science, with notetakers and computers. I have a grade 9 student who is
doing all of his math on a notetaker/calculator with braille display who is
able to print all of his work for his teachers without having it interlined.
After several discussions and looking at the UEB code, I sincerely hope we
do not adopt it in Canada. It will be a pain, very expensive, and weaken
rather than strengthen the push for the use of braille in schools. this
issue has already fractured the blind community.
Diana
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