See http://dh2013.unl.edu/abstracts/ab-137.html for an abstract of our poster.

1. wordpress.org/plugins/braille
GOAL: to make it easy for content
accessibility tool that will create
creators to conver t a text into
braille content for end-users who are
braille, thereby extending humanities
blind or low vision.
content to hundreds of thousands
of visually disabled readers, but
experimenting with making braille
available visually through the
WordPress interface.
The Braille WordPress Plugin
Challenges in Working with Braille
jj Allows the choice of using a local
The interpretation of Braille depends
LibLouis installation or a remote
on the language it represents. We
We have built a “braille” shor tcode
LibLouis service to provide the
assume American English in our
to translate enclosed text in any
translation from English to BRL for
installation. Other languages can
Wordpress page into into both BRL
embossing.
be accommodated with proper
or SimBraille output. BRL is suitable
for embossing while SimBraille
jj Provides translation of the BRL to
SimBraille for visual display.
BrailleSC.org, a fun, educational
produces an HTML file with UTF-8
resource for individuals who are
encoded glyphs representing the
jj Enables website components such
visually impaired as well as for their
embossed form of the characters
as post content, comments, or
families, friends, and educators, is a
suitable for display in a visual
menus to be translated into Braille.
fully accessible web site emphasizing
interface.
the impor tance of braille literacy and
providing strategies for using braille
in everyday life. In Making the Digital
Humanities More Open, BrailleSC
has par tnered the Maryland Institute
for Technology in the Humanities
(MITH) to under take its second
stage of development by designing
and deploying a WordPress-based
PARTNERS
braillesc.org
jj Suppor ts the expor t of
Additionally, extending the use of
Anthologize projects as either
Anthologize—a free and open source
SimBraille or BRL for embossing.
plug-in for WordPress that currently
translates any RSS text into PDF,
ePub, HTML, or TEI—the BrailleSC
team and MITH has provided, for the
first time, braille output for the tool
allowing users to translate any RSS
feed into either BRL or SimBraille.
configuration of the LibLouis
installation.
The final form of the BRL and
SimBraille depends on the style sheet
used in the LibLouis installation.
Sophisticated output will require
additional work with LibLouis.
LibLouis may find some textual
representations, such as m-dashes,
challenging, especially when used
through a remote LibLouis service.
@BrailleSC
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