http://www.nationalbraille.org/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=699 National Braille Association - Braille Formats/Textbook - Evolution of Textbook Formatting - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Sat, 14 May 2011 00:34:06 GMT Sat, 14 May 2011 00:34:06 GMT http://www.nationalbraille.org/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=699
I'm not sure what it is you would like added to your Formats discussion. The 1977 Formats was the first comprehensive set of rules for transcribing textbooks, although there were some smaller sets of rules before that. It was about this time that the first federal legislation was passed that mandated mainstream education for disabled students. Blind students in the general classroom needed to know what the sighted students were seeing on the print page. Previously, when blind students were educated in boarding schools or special day classes and schools exclusively with other blind students, it didn't matter what the print page was, for instance, as long as the book was in braille. At that time, braille wasn't even mandatory, so blind students managed with recordings and readers and received braille only if they were lucky enough to get it. The new law changed that as well and made braille a requirement for braille-reading students. And that is why Formats was so important and remains so to this day.

--Joanna]]> Sat, 14 May 2011 00:34:06 GMT http://www.nationalbraille.org/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=699 They know about the Code of Braille Textbook Formats and Techniques, 1977; Braille Formats Principles of Braille Transcriptions, 1997; and BANA Braille Codes Update 2007. What else can you add to the discussion?

Thank you.
Marie Amerson]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 08:46:20 GMT