What Is Web-Braille?
Crista Earl If you have questions you would like answered in an upcoming issue of AccessWorld, send them to accessworld@afb.net. Question: I think I heard something about downloading braille books from the library. How does that work? Answer: Web-Braille is the best thing to come along since the interpoint embosser. Best of all, you don’t have to be a braille reader to benefit. You can download the electronic files, translate them, and read them with speech or magnification, or you can simply print them out with a braille embosser. If you have a braille printer, you know that there is a lot of work involved in getting a book ready to be brailled on paper. First, the electronic version must be created. Then the electronic version must be translated into Grade 2 braille (“normal” braille to most people in the United States and other parts of the English-speaking world). The translation process usually involves a great deal of editing and formatting to get a library-perfect version of the
