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Dream – braille poster
Illustration from a CNIB poster for the National Braille Writing Contest
Orbit Braille Reader 20 (2016)
A refreshable braille reader that is portable. Developed in cooperation with ten other organisations around the world, the Orbit Reader 20 maximizes simplicity, functionality and connectivity at a greatly reduced cost compared with earlier portable braille readers.
Braille Lite 40
Manufactured by Blaizie Engineering (USA) the Braille Lite 40-cell refreshable braille display supports reading documents, electronic books and articles
Kurzweil Reading Edge 1992
A stand-alone and almost portable reading machine.
Music Braille
Irène Côté, Home Teacher, Quebec Division is transcribing music into braille. Her right hand is creating a new braille sheet while her left hand reads an existing braille sheet.
IBM 100 Braille Electric Typewriter
This typewriter has a QWERTY keyboard but creates braille. Grade 1 braille is typed in lowercase. Both lower and uppercase characters are used for Grade 2. The contractions for Grade 2 occupy the uppercase positions. Inset shows the raised dots of a braille character.
Braille Embossing Machine (IBM)
Linked to an IBM punch card reading device, the braille embossing machine makes it possible to produce automatically the metal plates used to print braille books. The punched cards with complicated braille language are translated directly from the English text by an IBM 704 computer
Music Braille
Mr. R. Robitaille, Braille Music Transcription Service, transcribing from printed music with a manual brailler
Music braille
Denis Regnaud, at the console of the St Patrick Church organ, Montreal. His left hand is reading braille music while he plays with his right hand on the keyboard