This showed up on another mailing list I'm on.  The large second
paragraph doesn't seem to make sense to me, but I may just be
ignorant.  Can someone in the know explain what this is really
about?  Thanks!

--Kynn

>I found this little note amidst a bunch of otherwise useless information in
>a Mallpark newsletter.  I thought it might be interesting to see if anyone
>else has heard anything about this.
>
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>6. Braille is coming online.
>Imagine documents translated on the fly, in Braille format. Documents
>coming in get translated into Braille. Documents going our go into
>a word format that everyone blessed with vision sees. Computer based
>manipulation of folders, files and software without any text! Users
>can work the files almost like a braille recorder. Stop, start, pause,
>rewind, fast forward, etc. Speakers and voice synthesizers to play
>readout or playback. The raised dot language invented by Louis Braille
>in the 1830's is already used electronically. eBraiile is part of the
>US's Library of Congress. This is one of the major stumbling blocks.
>Only US citizens can use eBraille at this time. The Canadian National
>Institute for the Blind in conjunction with American Printing and
>Massachusetts based Duxbury Systems is trying to bring Braille online
>through two new systems. eBraille and VisiText. We know this will
>significantly impact many in a positive way and hope the Library of
>Congress gets many emails supporting the effort to go global with
>eBraille.
>
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