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Daisy-Consortium publishes the first draft version of eBraille format and is reaching out for feed-back
A general description taken out of the document: This specification defines eBraille, a digital reading format for braille publications. eBraille uses an EPUB 3-compatible file set based on the Open Web Platform — using technologies such as XHTML and CSS — to encode...
keynote address for ICEB general assembly 2024
Jonathan Mosen, a well-known personality in the blindness community, presented the keynote address for the 2024 ICEB general Assembly in New Zealand. It is a very interesting, knowledgeble and entertaining speech. Enjoy! Peter Brass Safeguarding the legacy,...
Discover Braille with Bump Bump Learn: A Fun and Interactive Learning App
by Mairead O’Mahony Bump Bump Braille Learn is a free intuitive app on iOS devices that helps anyone learn braille in a fun and interactive way. Whether you are new to braille or would like to brush up on your braille skills, it is a great app to use as a reference...
Tips and Techniques to Enhance Your Braille Reading Experience
Many touch readers dream of a day when our fingers can smoothly glide across pages of braille freeing our minds to connect with content and absorb words flowing under our hands. But for some of us, developing those tactile skills and confidence needed for a...
Results of the survey “Braille Display Usage”
From December 2023 to the end of February 2024 braille working group of European Blind Union conducted the survey Braille Display Usage. This survey offers overview of braille display usage and braille display users’ expectations. The questionnaire contained...
Some thoughts regarding dots 7 and 8 for highlighting text vs capital letters an so forth
For a while I have used six dots braille instead of eight dots braille, since a Swedish six dot liblouis braille code was added a few years ago, nowadays available for all known screen readers including iOS and MacOS., and I really enjoy. I can now e.g. note whether...
Word Guessing for the Braille display by Wolfram Flosdorf
Contribution by Reiner Delgado DBSV Employee On his website softcologne.de, Wolfram Flosdorf offers PC games for the Braille display for free. In Word Guessing, you choose the length of the word to be guessed. For example, 4 dashes are displayed on the Braille...
Memory for the Braille display by Wolfram Flosdorf
Contribution by Reiner Delgado DBSV Employee On his website softcologne.de , Wolfram Flosdorf offers PC games for the Braille display for free. In a traditional game of Memory, there are lots of hidden cards on the table. You turn two of them over, and if they match...
Games with Braille – not just for learning: Computer game Tetris for the Braille display
Contribution by Reiner Delgado DBSV Employee I would say: Tetris is intangible cultural heritage. Tetris is already a vocabulary when it comes to precisely fitting objects into a limited space. For 10 years now, Tetris has also been available for the Braille display...