Apple Braille Font

A collection of three Braille fonts

Per the specification, font-family names are case insensitive. Supported Apple Braille Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5: Supported Apple Braille Windows XP (NT 5.1 SP3). A new typeface – greater legibility and readability for low vision readers Atkinson Hyperlegible font is named after Braille Institute founder, J. Robert Atkinson. What makes it different from traditional typography design is that it focuses on letterform distinction to increase character recognition, ultimately improving readability. We are making it free for anyone to use!

Braille TrueType Fonts have been developed over a period of years, at least as far back as Duxbury's first Macintosh-based product release in 1989, as component parts of many of its products for braille translation and word-processing.

Currently, all of Duxbury's principal products include the fonts in some form. So, if you have any of those products installed, you may already have these fonts, in which case this freeware distribution will not be of use to you.

A braille font is a way to 'convert' ordinary text characters into dot patterns, which is how the Duxbury Braille Translator (DBT) can display braille dots and print them out. Even if you do not need braille translation or editing software, it is possible that braille fonts would be useful for some purposes.

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runs on:: Windows All
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filename:: Duxbury Braille fonts.zip
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Braille is actually part of most of the Unicode fonts.
I don't use it but assume you probably need the keyboard for it.
Check also what needs to be changed in +System Preferences > Universal Access > Seeing+
References:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/accessibility/
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/AssistiveTechnology_in_Education/Mac_OS#BrailleSupport
http://atmac.org/use-your-regular-keyboard-as-a-perkins-braille-keyboard/
http://exceptionalteaching.net/pochbrke.html
I would think you would need a special printer to make it readable. Merely typing it would not be very useful, so it would be paired up with whatever peripherals you may have.
Peter

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Mar 5, 2010 4:03 PM