Students will also learn to write literary braille, using a slate and stylus, as well as computerized braillewriters. |
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The Copyright Act allows alternate format producers to make braille and audiobooks for Canadians with a perceptual impairment. |
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Available in English, French, audiotape, large print, braille, or on computer diskette. |
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These printers can transcribe large quantities of texts into braille at a very high speed. |
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Visually impaired people can have access to a braille computer that also offers a service whereby L'Express magazine can be read out loud. |
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Edie was a dedicated braille transcriber and strong advocate for access to braille. |
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You'll recognise it by the way the letters are pounded deep into the paper, like some kind of reverse braille. |
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As a braillist – someone who uses braille – the dream for me is when the opposite happens. |
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Respondents indicated having required, on 24 occasions, documents in formats such as braille, large print, audio cassette or computer diskette. |
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This report can be made available in alternative formats such as large print, braille, audio cassette, or computer diskette. |
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This publication can be made available on request on diskette, large print, audio-cassette and braille. |
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In addition, a braille handout is available, upon request, with the same information contained in the safety video. |
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The second goal is to award the first Edie Mourre Scholarship to assist a transcriber with the cost of learning braille. |
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Her braille writing could now be emphasized even more, and she became accustomed to brailling her name and date at the top of every worksheet. |
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Each word was written in contracted braille on a 5 x 7-inch note card using a Perkins braillewriter. |
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A six-key machine, called a braillewriter, can be used to write in braille. |
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I currently receive a braille embossed statement. |
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This year the theme of RNIB Read is the marvellous braille system which uses a series of raised dots to enable blind people to read. |
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The free periodical is available in print, audiocassette, and braille in English or French. |
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I would like to understand why we want to change the braille system. |
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First, it would allow us to use one single braille code for reading and transcribing simpler, literary texts and more complex mathematical and scientific texts. |
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It follows the traditional system in Japanese braille of hiragana and katakana characters, while omitting the Chinese kanji characters. |
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This setup often required creative use of desk space in order to accommodate his braille textbooks and braillewriter. |
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Public participation materials should be made available in alternate formats that is, large print, braille, cassette tape, disc, etc. whenever possible. |
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For example, we recently purchased specialized voice activation hardware and software for an employee, and installed braille premises markings for Executive Offices employees. |
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However, most of the world's languages, including sign languages for the deaf and braille for the blind, are minority languages in any national context. |
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A new embosser, called Emprint, has added Hewlett-Packard Inkjet color printing to the tactile and braille output. |
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There are more than 20 million records in AMICUS, of which only 250,000 are audiobook, braille or large print, as well as a very small number of records for described videos. |
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Input devices may include pointing devices, such as a mouse or trackball, as well as keyboards, braille devices, head wands, microphones, and others. |
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Based on reliable estimates of current alternate format production in Canada, this proposed grant program would result in the availability of 500 new audio book titles and 200 new braille titles per year. |
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In this table, Ms. Landry shows the difficulties or the dissimilarities between the braille that is proposed and the current version of braille in both languages. |
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And while you're at it, let's show them the newly released braille dog guide stamps that they won't need to purchase, but which Grandpa and Grandma can, or which makes a great stocking stuffer! |
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I am a transcriber, reviser and user of French and English braille. |
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Aside from the tactile nature of braille, the partly logographic nature of braille orthography also adds to the complexity of learning to read. |
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In 1829, Louis Braille invented a six-dot musical notation system and published his first book in braille, Method of Writing Words, Music, and Plain Songs by Means of Dots, for Use by the Blind and Arranged for Them. |
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To invoke chord commands, users must press a spacebar and braille keys simultaneously. |
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I developed a prototype system with a simple tactile output device that represented the six braille elements. |
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And just when it seemed the situation couldn't get any worse for braillists, along come headlines suggesting the end is nigh for braille, that this communication lifeline is about to be cut off. |
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Through CAER, each provincial resource centre is able to share their braille and alternate format texts with one another, increasing their ability to service students who are blind and perceptually impaired. |
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Let's settle an old-misnomer, perhaps a folktale about braille! |
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For example, spoken language uses the auditive modality, whereas sign languages and writing use the visual modality, and braille writing uses the tactile modality. |
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A writing miscue was a word that was not conventionally written using either contracted or uncontracted braille or any combination of correct contractions. |
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Drivers will draw lots and be assigned a navigator who will be handed over a map with the route in Braille. |
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The 37-year-old mother-of-three, from Limes Avenues, Pinehurst, studied for her access course using Braille and audiotapes. |
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In addition, there are no reference books about the exam written in Braille. |
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You will also be able to order copies of the booklet in audio tape, large print, and Braille formats. |
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And so she likes to follow what happens to Hermione, but she prefers to read it in Braille, not listen to it on audio tape. |
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Through her tireless energy, the blind of half a continent are now served from Grahamstown with books in Braille and moon type and talking books. |
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Currently, materials are available in Braille or by listening to talking books on audio playback machines. |
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It's so richly textured that it almost resembles Braille, and I imagine he goes through tubes of paint by the truckload. |
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About the functioning of the machine, he said the thermoforming machine would print pictures, graphs, maps etc. in Braille. |
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Reading matter is transcribed into Braille for her, and she also uses audiotapes. |
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But then I look at the book more closely and spot the raised dots of Braille. |
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But, as she reads the Braille inscription on it there is no mistaking her pride. |
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This would be of advantage to fast Braille readers who are able to read two-handedly. |
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Since it opened I went along with a visually impaired member of the committee to sample the notice board in Braille. |
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He read in Braille, mainly textbooks translated into finger-touch words by prisoners in Arbour Hill jail. |
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Since the process of printing pictures in Braille involves heating special paper is required. |
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Important municipal information must also be available in Braille format for the visually impaired. |
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He was faced with the challenge of learning a new way of writing and reading in Braille and had to cope with his visual impairment emotionally. |
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Most of the classics are available in Braille, but the more obscure texts are not, and all the class handouts had to be scanned for me. |
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But, pursuing higher education proves to be a challenging task for them due to the acute shortage of textbooks in Braille. |
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And so she likes to follow what happens to Hermione, but she prefers to read it in Braille and not listen to it on audiotape. |
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Elaborating on the Braille chessboard, he said, the black squares on the board were slightly more raised than the white ones. |
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Despite being blind, he is a major social activist in Odisha and is the compiler of this Braille calendar in Odia. |
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A Braille printer and labelling machine help, for example, to identify foodstuffs in the kitchen or deep-freeze, or to catalogue a CD library. |
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If our interview were in person, she would ask me to type out questions on a Braille display. |
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When the spacecraft Deep Space 1 flew past the asteroid Braille in July 1999, it was too far away from earth for ground control to direct all its movements. |
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The site now includes parking, special access gates, wide and clearly visible footpaths, reinforced grass areas and an interpretation board with Braille panel. |
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The internet guide will show whether a cinema offers hearing loops, a hotel offers adapted rooms, and a restaurant offers menus in large print or Braille. |
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The software is installed in a Braille Lite-a small, portable Braille note taker that is equipped with synthetic speech and a refreshable Brailled display. |
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The Visually Impaired National Library for the Blind loans books written in Braille to blind people and also runs a beginner's programme in Braille or Moon. |
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Included in the display are both Braille and jumbo-sized playing cards, as well as other classic games which have been retextured, enlarged or recreated in Braille. |
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Artifact descriptions are etched in Braille into glass lecterns in the National Museum of Colombia, and photosensor-activated handrails trigger audio narrations. |
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The four-volume 512-page book has been brought out in Braille after its success in several Indian languages and a few foreign languages like Chinese and Korean. |
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Also on the anvil are a Braille slate, abacus for mathematics, geometry set with raised numbers and an alphabet plate to enable the visually impaired to learn to write. |
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Wordenwood now plans to start a special foundation for the blind that will push for the use of Braille on lures to help sightless fishermen around the world. |
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To a sighted person, reading Braille seems to be difficult and laborious, yet, intriguingly, Kleege describes it as natural and pain-free, and even skim reading is possible. |
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Supernova from Dolphin Software offers full screen reading in speech and Braille with integrated magnification and works on any of the supported Windows platforms. |
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Secondly, you could always send your lady to school to learn English, so that you both have some other way of communicating other than by Braille. |
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According to the American Foundation for the Blind, Dufau eventually relented and the Braille code spread throughout the world. |
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Kandynce went to Braille school so she could keep up her passion for reading, history in particular. |
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A Braille embosser, also called a Braille printer, uses Braille translation software to convert regular text to Braille and produce a Braille document. |
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Gifted with sharp memory and dedication, the 21-year-old has created history of sorts by memorising the entire Holy Qur'an in Braille. |
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Braille was created using a Perkins Brailler on 3-by-5 index cards with the top right corner removed. |
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The complex has completed required studies to prepare a Braille copy of the Holy Qur'an to cater to the increasing demand from blind readers. |
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Though many blind people memorise the Qur'an, even faster than those with clear vision, learning through the Braille script is said to be very rare. |
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