Will there be any new ways to read braille with the digital format?
Since 1999, NLS has been making braille books available in a digital form through Web-Braille, a password-protected web-based service. More than 4,300 books, all NLS-produced braille magazines, and several hundred music scores can be downloaded from the Internet. Although Web-Braille is a digital format, the files were created to be embossed on braille paper and don’t contain information that would assist the user in easily navigating a book. However, a more flexible braille reading experience may be provided by the digital talking-book format. With a properly equipped player and a digital talking book that includes the full text of the book, reading and navigating the book in braille will be possible. NLS will produce only a limited number of digital talking books that include a full text file. Nevertheless, the presence of the text file will greatly increase the usefulness of some titles, making cookbooks or reference books, for example, easier to read and richer sources of informati
