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Current advanced educational philosophy identifies the benefits of encouraging very young children, at the pre-Braille reading stage, to explore with their fingers Braille Characters. When this is done at the same time as the words are spoken that the Braille Symbols refer to then the children commence to associate the Braille symbols with written and spoken language. It can be the start of a
love of reading and writing, and a lifetime of literacy! |
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Parents, grandparents, brothers,
sisters, and friends can read with confidence to the young Blind child who
can simultaneously explore the Braille characters with their fingers. Questions are easily and
accurately answered as BrailleAlign™ positions the large print, words directly
over the Braille characters. |
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BrailleAlign™ can format the output in
either Grade One or Grade Two Braille, the Translation to Braille can
be selected to be with either the WinBraille, OR the Duxbury
Braille Translators, which work transparently in the background. There is
no need for the operator to have a knowledge of Braille. The output can be either in Portrait
or Landscape format. |
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BrailleAlign™
has been designed to work with the Index Everest Braille Embosser. The
Index Everest Braille Embosser is a high-speed, sophisticated, Braille
Embosser, designed to work with standard ‘Cut-Sheet’ papers.
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There are no complex commands! All
you need is a computer, an ink printer, an Index Everest Braille embosser,
and BrailleAlign™. Just
type or load a file into BrailleAlign™, click the ‘Translate’
button. Immediately you will see
on screen the translated and aligned text. Click the ‘Print” button.
Remove the printed paper from the ink printer, and place it in the Everest
Embosser, click the ‘Emboss’ button. You have a BrailleAlign’ed book
ready for binding.! |
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No
longer do documents have to be
printed, and then the text ‘Brailled’ and the Braille characters, cut out,
and stuck on to the text document with glue, or dymo tape,
professional first time documents can be created, and stored, and re-created
at will. Editing is simple so documents can be used over and over again, and
then speedily re-created. |
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There
are numerous options available for the creative or experienced user, sequenced
Braille words in English Grade Two contractions, can be coloured,
bolded, or italicised, in the ink printout to assist the non-Braille reader recognise these
linked symbols relate to the sequenced words. Six
Key editing of the Braille is
available, varying line widths and paper lengths allow most papers to be
used, etc. |
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The WinBraille™ Braille Translator is
supplied free of charge with the Index Everest Braille Embosser.