Open captioned. The Braille Institute offers remote one-on-ones, weekly classes and workshops about a variety of access technology topics for blind and low vision clients, along with in person services at our 7 southern California centers. Our workshops, which are one-time sessions about a specific topic, are also open to anyone including families of blind clients and those working with the blind. Topics we cover include smart phone and computer low vision settings and screen readers, smart speakers, braille devices, audio books, and AI aps.

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1/14/2025

10/14/2014 Students who are blind or visually impaired face significant challenges in school, but one of those challenges should not have to be deciphering different formatting on school-based tactile graphics. Pat van Geem, Education Consultant for the TSBVI Outreach Department, introduces viewers to the formatting guidelines for tactile graphics, established by the Braille Authority of North America (BANA). Click the Chapters button above to view individual segments: - Introduction - Worksheet Elements - Production Methods - Document Elements - Graphic Components - Tactile Graphic Order - Closing Comments Click the Resources button for a transcript (txt) and/or audio recording (mp3).

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12/3/2014

1 of 7, TETN #20437 - Sue Mattson discusses the importance of braille formatting, Part 1 of 2. Review of the Braille Authority of North America (BANA) recently released Braille Formats: Principles of Print-to-Braille Transcription, 2011. This completely revised publication that is available in three accessible electronic versions on the BANA website.  The new publication is the result of an extensive revision of the previous braille formats publication.  The revision was worked on for 10 years by members of BANA’s Braille Formats Technical Committee.

Original contributor Sue Mattson

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1/8/2014