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?
Simon
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From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ian F.
Sent: 01 April 2015 13:24
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Subject: Re: Ancient Greek for blind student (Braille or JAWS)
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).
Ian Francis
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 implementation terms and about 3-4 years out of date at best.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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