Ah that's what I was trying to remember it was the phonetic code, like I
say it looked ancient greek to me, but probably wasn't! I think we did
some kind of key in Braille, and also tried making tactile diagrams of
the actual symbols which turned out to be pretty much useless for the
student (though good fun for us).
Also don't forget Project Gutenberg is a great resource for electronic
versions of out of copyright books etc so might be work checking for the
texts.
https://www.gutenberg.org/
Did a quick search on homer and quite a few titles seemed to come up,
though obviously I know nothing about this subject :)
Good luck
Ian Francis
On 01/04/2015 13:37, Simon Phillips [DIS] wrote:
> Hello
> Robert Engelbretson is a linguistics lecturer at Rice University in Houston and wrote the braille phonetics code. His webpage is www.ruf.rice.edu/~reng/ and his email address is [log in to unmask] You could try contacting him for advice, if all else fails?
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> Subject: Re: Ancient Greek for blind student (Braille or JAWS)
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> Hi
> Soft braille is probably the best way to go with this, if the student is a fluent braillist. I recall way back we supported a student studying linguistics who used to switch on Grade 0 Computer Braille to interpret linguistic characters, which looked ancient greek to me (but were actually high ASCII characters).
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> On 31/03/2015 21:34, Natalya Dell wrote:
>> I have a blind student who has to take some Ancient Greek modules for
>> their course in some months time - but I need to ensure we have prep
>> time before asking the academic department to do potentially
>> significant work.
>>
>> I've done a bit of Googling and hit some ideas but they're vague in
>> implementation terms and about 3-4 years out of date at best. I'd
>> rather not bother the kind blind folk who've written webpages and info
>> till I've checked everywhere else first.
>>
>> Does anyone here have recent experience or knowledge of how one gets
>> Ancient Greek text into some format that a blind user can access
>> either via a braille-form (probably on a braille strip, but hardcopy
>> braille could be done if nothing else is good) or via JAWS?
>>
>> Any thoughts or ideas welcomed on or off list.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Natalya
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