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Raising the Bar: An Overview of the ID Mate

… that you planned to do this weekend. You think you put a braille label on it, but what if you forgot? Wouldn't it be … to read. A 16-point font would be an improvement. No braille manual or quick reference guide is included with the … to spend $1,599 to perform these tasks. You may decide that braille labels are the way to go until the price for a bar …
Jay Leventhal, Koert Wehberg
AccessWorld November 2001

The Human Touch in HumanWare

… wasn't software; it was HumanWare." The new company needed braille—and it needed money. Halliday's next move was to go to Tieman of Holland. "I told them we needed their braille cells, whether they decided to invest in the company … from Pulse Data, CCTVs from Tieman, and the ALVA line of braille displays, HumanWare assumed a significant presence …
Deborah Kendrick
AccessWorld September 2001

Vision Tech: VoxLens--A single line of code that can enable developers to make charts and graphs more accessible

… A text-based table may provide the screen reader or braille user the raw data, but it does a poor job of … that chart?” he asks.  “Unfortunately, screen reader and braille users have been told that tabular data is their best … consistent among various platforms. Also, screen reader and braille users should not have to rely on special software or …
Bill Holton
AccessWorld July 2022

Helen Keller Documentary

… And I was eager to use it. On screen: Helen types on a Braille writer. Helen: I for one love strength… On screen: … A book title: "The Story of My Life, 1904." Helen uses a braille writer. Then, several articles penned by Helen … Chat About the Hand. Next, Helen's maturing fingers touch a braille page, a flower… Helen: Every object is associated in …

Research on English Learners Who Are Blind or Low Vision

… right eye and some vision in their left eye. Student was a braille reader. The student was presented with vocabulary in … (taken from various science textbooks and transcribed into Braille) containing the three words. In some cases, all … ranging in ages from 19 to 54. Of the fifteen, nine were braille readers. The study looks at how smartphones can help …

Focus on AFB: Summer 2016

… Cupertino School District in California. Pat also teaches braille at San Francisco State University and is a leading test developer and proctor for the annual National Braille Challenge. AFB: You have been a teacher of the … I also received the Teacher of the Year Award from the Braille Institute in 2015, and that was a great honor. AFB: …

AFB Town Hall #3: Education Across the Lifespan

… CNIB (Canadian National Institute for the Blind), National Braille Press, Perkins School for the Blind, Seedlings Braille Books, Texas School for the Blind and Visually … by the hours that the teachers were putting in driving a braille writer to a house and putting it on a porch. Or …

A Thanksgiving Message, c. 1932

… Thanksgiving! Front page DEAR FRIEND: Please gather the braille characters from the vine that grows over this page. … and across the top of the page. Tendrils have alphabet and braille letters coming from them to spell out “We greet you …

Feedback From the Field: AFB Organizes Letter to the Institute for Education Sciences Advocating for Research in Blindness, Visual Impairment, and Deaf-blindness

… personnel, tools, and teaching methods. At the same time, braille instruction must change at the K-12 and university … to address the national transition to Unified English Braille , and technology is reshaping inclusive classrooms. …
Rebecca Sheffield, Ph.D.

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… to wait a year until a book is recorded or transcribed into braille. It is exciting when a new technology comes along … conference which, because of deadlines for the print and braille versions, will not be reported on in-depth in …
AccessWorld May 2001

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