Publication of braille standards
This document outlines the workflow used by the Norwegian Braille Authority to publish our braille standards online. Background For many years, we have authored our standards in Microsoft Word. From these Word documents, we generated PDFs for publication on our website and for producing printed copies. For embossing 6-dot braille on paper, we have relied…
Statement from the Nordic Braille Committee
The Importance of BrailleStatement from the Nordic Braille Committee The Nordic Braille Committee is a collaboration between the Braille councils of Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland. On October the 25th and 26th, we gathered in Reykjavik for our annual meeting in the Nordic Braille Committee. At the meeting, we shared news from each country…
Screen readers as a motivating source to braille literacy
Innlegg av Nina Tveter ved Nordisk punktskriftmøte 2015 As the headline says, what I’m going to talk about today, is screen readers as a motivating source to braille literacy. I’m not going to deal with the technical aspects. I’ll concentrate here on the practical use. As far as I know, no research has been done…