Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBE Quarterly Volume 60(4)

A quarterly newsletter from the Council for Exceptional Children's Division on Visual Impairments containing practitioner tips for Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments, Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and other professionals.

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; Lorem Ipsum Dolor Spring 2016 6 Other UEB Options: In addition to the BrailleNote Apex, the Brailliant refreshable braille displays by HumanWare can be connected via Bluetooth or USB to computers or mobile devices to provide the user instant braille access. As many of these devices depend on the respective screen reader to provide the braille output and translation, enabling UEB is often as simple as changing the braille table settings in the screen reader software. For example, to change the braille table in JAWS, simply select the Advanced Option under Braille Settings and select Unified English braille in the General Tab. For VoiceOver on iOS devices, select the Braille Option in the VoiceOver settings and choose English Unified in the Translation Option. In both cases braille input and output will now use UEB. As an annual sponsor of the Braille Challenge in the United States, HumanWare proudly supports braille literacy. The National Braille Press (NBP) published a website entitled "The need For Braille" (https://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/braille/needforbraille.html). Here they state that over the past 50 years braille literacy has been on an extreme decline. With 34

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