Following a Trustee review of our policies, we would like to draw your attention to the recently updated moderation policy published on the Braillists foundation website.
In particular, we have added a paragraph covering expected behaviour in the chat facility during live events.
You can find the policy at braillists.org/events/moderation
2024 marks the 200th anniversary of braille. To celebrate, Vispero is holding a special event to commemorate the major milestones that make up the history of braille. Join them and some very special guests as they discuss how braille is used at home, in school, and in the workplace. They will also share stories and ideas that illustrate the crucial role braille continues to play in all facets of our daily lives.
Join Elizabeth Whitaker and Rachel Buchanan from Vispero along with Andrew Flatres and Peter Tucic from HumanWare for a webinar that will delve into the all-new Split Braille feature offered in JAWS 2024.
Participants will learn how this enhancement offers the ability for a braille display user to view and control content in two screens simultaneously, greatly increasing productivity through multitasking. Ranging from analyzing font attributes alongside text in Microsoft Word documents to simultaneously viewing PowerPoint slide content and speaker notes, Split Braille can vastly improve workflows in any setting. Time will also be allotted for participant questions.
If you have a new braille display and you’re struggling to connect it to your computer, iPhone or iPad, or you have a new computer, iPhone or iPad and you’re struggling to connect it to your braille display, this session is for you.
We will cover:
The session will be presented by Matthew Horspool.
Register for the Masterclass here.
To join by phone, please use these details:
Celebrate US National Braille Literacy Month with Vispero as they take a deep dive into the Split Braille feature in JAWS 2024. They will take an extensive look at the new functionality it provides, plus discuss ways it can help boost productivity. Learn about practical scenarios for using it in views such as: Buffered Text
Annotations
Attribute Indicators
Speech History
Translation Split
JAWS Cursor
Window Text
Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Teams application-specific views
Freedom Scientific Presenters: Elizabeth Whitaker, Rachel Buchanan, and Ron Miller
ACVREP credits will be available for those who attend the live webinar.
Register for Divide and Conquer: Overcome Challenges with Split Braille and JAWS
Information from Vispero:
Join Bill Kilroy, Ron Miller, and Shelly Klure for a webinar celebrating braille literacy month with the Focus Braille Displays. Ron Miller will demonstrate Split Braille, how to connect the braille display to a variety of devices and discuss the importance of braille literacy. Don’t miss out on this educational hour as we demonstrate live and answer your questions in real-time.
We will provide an overview of the Focus Braille Displays and show how you or your clients can benefit from the lightweight and compact design. We will demonstrate how to:
ACVREP credits will be available for those who attend the live webinar.
Register for the “Celebrate Braille Literacy with Focus” webinar
Braille isn’t just for books! It can also be found on household products and signs; in restaurants, museums and theatres; and your personal and confidential documents can also be sent to you in braille. So how do you find it? Who do you ask? And if you think the braille you’ve found could be improved, how do you make your case without upsetting people?
In this special event for World Braille Day, we will be joined by a panel of braille advocates to explore these questions and more. We will examine when companies are legally required to provide braille, discuss how to encourage the provision of braille and consider how best to respond when braille is not available.
To join by phone, please use these details:
At Sight and Sound Technology, we’re passionate about Braille, the method of reading, developed by Louis Braille, almost 200 years ago.
In our work we see every day how Braille continues to revolutionise access to education, employment and a better quality of life for those who use it. We are delighted therefore to announce details of Braille and Breakfast, a very special online webinar, taking place at 09:30 am on Thursday January 4th.
Join Sight and Sound Technology’s Stuart Lawler, as he hosts a panel of Braille enthusiasts who will share their passion for the code that has changed so many lives.
If you love braille, and have your own Braille stories or comments to share, then please come along and join us for this very special celebration.
Please register here to attend this session.
UKAAF will be hosting a webinar celebrating World Braille Day: Towards two centuries of braille. Taking place between 13:00 and 14:00, we hope you will be able to attend.
At the time of writing this note, details are not yet finalised. However, it is hoped to have three speakers, and of course time for any questions.
Come One, Come All and join the Braille Revival League for a seven-hour birthday party celebration for Louis Braille which we are calling Braille Matters!! There will be lots of presentations, lots of prizes, lots of opportunities for everyone to participate and no reason for you not to be there.
Braille is the means of communication that enables people who are blind to be competitive in the world of work, to be creative, to play games, to mark and label, and so much more!
Our organization is concerned that there is not enough excitement about braille and we want to change that! We want to get everyone excited about what braille can do and look ahead to what the Braille Revival League can do to make braille more and more valued and relevant.
Millions of blind people around the world believe that braille matters, and so do we. The Braille Revival League and its six state affiliates invite you to join us as we celebrate the genius of Louis Braille and learn why blind users and organizations like the Braille Authority of North America, the National Library Service, Clovernook Printinghouse for the Blind, the National Braille Press, Horizons for the Blind, and the Braillists Foundation in the United Kingdom say that braille matters now more than ever.
We will talk about the work we are going to do trying to get braille labels on products. We will talk about the support we offer to the National Library Service as they launch braille e-readers and braille on demand. we will talk with agencies across the country who teach braille or produce it. We will explore approaches that are making braille exciting to children in school. We will hear from our state affiliates about what is going on in states where there are chapters of the Braille Revival League.
Our hope is that this event, occurring on the birthday of Louis Braille, will become an annual happening. We will be able each year to use this day to celebrate what we have done over the preceding year to make braille better known and more available.
We will be broadcasting the daylong event on Zoom, ACB Community, in Clubhouse, and on ACB Media. Come and help us make this day a huge success!!
Click here to join at 6:00 PM on 4 January, no registration required
All times are shown in Eastern Standard Time (GMT−05:00).