[vicsireland] Testers needed for Irish Braille on Braille Displays
- From: Ronan McGuirk <ronan.p.mcguirk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:24:23 +0100
Hello All,
As many of you may know, an Updated Irish Language Braille code has
recently been ratified by INBAF (The Irish National Braille
andAlternative Formats Association) www.inbaf.ie.
A test implementation of the Updated Irish Braille code is now
available for use with Braille Displays used with the free NVDA screen
reader.
The implementation provides translation tables for Grade 1 and Grade 2
Irish Language text to Braille.
We are now appealing for volunteer testers!
In order to implement the test software, you will need a recent
version of NVDA installed, and a Braille Display that is compatible
with NVDA.
NVDA is available free of charge from www.nvaccess.org.
The test period will continue for a number of months. Once testing is
successfully completed and all required changes are made to the
system, it will then be implemented live.
For info, the Updated Irish Braille code is being tested and will be
implemented, in the LibLouis system www.liblouis.org. This is a free
open source library that is used by the NVDA and Orca screen readers,
BookShare.org and BrailleBlaster. Once implemented live, Updated Irish
Braille will become available over time in production to these
software systems.
If you are interested to test the Updated Irish Braille system, Please
respond to this list or get in contact with me directly to recieve the
test software and simple installation instructions.
Note that once implemented live, Updated Irish Braille will be
bundled with NVDA and will not require a separate install.
Many thanks,
Ronan
on behalf of INBAF Irish Braille sub-committee
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