Approved for adoption back in 2012, North America will officially be switching to Unified English Braille (UEB) in January 2016. What does this mean for you? Well, if you’ve trusted Braille Works with your documents, it means you can relax and don’t have to worry about it. We already comply with UEB standards and we’ve got you covered.
Our staff is fully trained, our equipment is cutting edge, and with the highest focus on testing and quality control that we place on our work, you can rest easy knowing that your documents will be transcribed in fully compliant Unified English Braille.
The switch to UEB is one that we’ve prepared for and the code itself is the accumulation of years of standards and changes that we’ve been a part of and studied all along the way. It was the Braille Authority of North America (BANA) that first began the process of developing a unifying code for the English language back in 1991. The work was then internationalized by the International Council on English Braille (ICEB) in 1993. Incidentally, one year later Braille Works was founded in 1994, with the mission of “Making the World a More Readable Place™.”
The new UEB code was designed with the reader in mind and your customers, who will actually read your documents in Braille, can expect a lot of advantages from this adoption. BANA has noted some of these advantages as: