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Braille Specific Internet Sites

The sites listed below are available on the World Wide Web and are not maintained by Project SLATE.  Therefore, Project SLATE cannot guarantee their availability, accessibility, or ease of use.  Linking to these sites from this web site will open them in a separate browser window.  To return to the Project SLATE site, close the new browser window.

Access 20/20

Provides Braille production and accessibility products.
 

Braille Authority of North America

Promotes and facilitate the uses, teaching and production of Braille. It publishes rules, interprets and renders options pertaining to Braille in all existing and future codes.
 

Braille Institute

Provide services such as brailled books, transcription, embossing, and free subscriptions to various braille literature magazines fro children. 

Braille with Pokadot

Pokadot is a six-key direct keyboard input Braille transcription program for sighted Braille transcribers that has been approved by the National Braille Association.
 

Introduction to Braille

This web site provides an overview of Braille is - what it is, the history, books and literacy ideas.
 

Louis Braille Center

Offers a catalog of affordable brailled books, along with information about braille. 

National Braille Factory

Makes Braille business cards, Braille chocolates, Braille documents, Braille coloring books, and Braille greeting cards.
 

National Braille Press

A nonprofit Braille printing and publishing house that offers both brailled books and braille transcription services, including the Children's Braille Book Club. 
 

NLS Braille Certifications

National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), Library of Congress administers a program of courses leading to certification in Braille transcribing and proofreading.
 

Seedlings

A non-profit organization dedicated to increasing opportunity for literacy by providing high quality, low-cost children's literature in braille. 

Tactile Vision Inc.

Developer of a raised printing method that produces easily readable tactile graphics and Braille for the blind and visually impaired.


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