[Unified Braille For All] Differences between EBAE and UEB

[Michelle Michaels]

Susan, in my educated opinion, I do believe that is most likely the
driving force behind the push for UEB adoption.

On 5/15/12, Susan Osterhaus <osterhauss at tsbvi.edu> wrote:
> Does this mean that ease of electronic translation is driving the rules of
> UEB?
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> Susan O
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> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Susan Jolly <easjolly at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
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>> I've just posted an article describing many of the changes to EBAE made
>> by
>> UEB rules.  The link is after my signature.  In preparing the article I
>> noticed that one strategy UEB uses to reduce the chances for translation
>> errors is to simply eliminate some of the EBAE rules more likely to cause
>> errors.  Here is an extract from the article that lists some of these
>> cases..
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>> As an example, in EBAE the letters a, i, and o are supposed to have
>> letter
>> signs when they are used to mean letters rather than words but UEB does
>> not
>> require lettersigns to be used for these letters when they mean letters.
>> Another example is that in EBAE the musical notes do and so are supposed
>> to
>> be spelled out and not use the alphabetic contractions but in UEB they
>> must
>> use the alphabetic contractions. A third example is that in EBAE embedded
>> computer items such as email addresses are supposed to use Computer
>> Braille
>> Code but in UEB they are supposed to use contracted braille. A fourth
>> example is UEB's relaxing the rule that shortforms should never be used
>> as
>> part-word contractions in proper names. One last example is that UEB
>> requires a grade 1 word indicator, dots 5-6, 5-6, before a spelled-out
>> word
>> such as s-t-o-p whereas EBAE avoids the clutter of letter signs on the
>> assumption that the reader can recognize a spelled-out word.
>>
>> Susan
>> http://www.dotlessbraille.org/**UEBvsEBAE.htm<http://www.dotlessbraille.org/UEBvsEBAE.htm>
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> Susan A Osterhaus
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