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Braille Font

My wife teaches blind students. We bought iWork and thought that Pages would work in Braille font. But it doesn't seem to. The Apple Braille font is listed and can be selected. But when typing it doesn't work. Does anyone know how to get this to work?

Posted on Mar 5, 2010 3:45 PM

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Mar 5, 2010 4:03 PM in response to VaMichael

Braille is actually part of most of the Unicode fonts.

I don't use it but assume you probably need the keyboard for it.

Check also what needs to be changed in +System Preferences > Universal Access > Seeing+

References:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/accessibility/

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/AssistiveTechnology_in_Education/Mac_OS#BrailleSupport

http://atmac.org/use-your-regular-keyboard-as-a-perkins-braille-keyboard/

http://exceptionalteaching.net/pochbrke.html

I would think you would need a special printer to make it readable. Merely typing it would not be very useful, so it would be paired up with whatever peripherals you may have.

Peter

Mar 6, 2010 1:11 AM in response to VaMichael

My wife teaches blind students. We bought iWork and thought that Pages would work in Braille font


1. Braille is a block in the international standard character set ISO-IEC 10646 which is implemented by the Unicode Consortium.

2. Braille is implemented in the CMAP Character Map of the Apple Symbol font file which is to say that Apple Symbol is TrueType font that draws Braille.

3. As Peter points out, it is a separate problem whether TrueType is drawn as RGB picture element patterns on a display, as ink dots on paper, as laser dots on film, as punched tactile patterns on card, and so on and so forth. If you want to print as punched tactile patterns, you need a printer that does that. That is a separate issue from the system character services and the system font services.

/hh

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