The Weekly Dose of Braille gives you a taste of braille examples that may be used in worksheets or textbook formatting. This insightful Weekly Dose of Braille brings your attention to the common use of Unified English Braille and how to implement these rules and formats used by braille transcribers and proofreaders. It is a miscellaneous mixture of tricky, sometimes challenging circumstances, that a braille transcriber may come across or question, but are neatly put into a Weekly Dose of Braille for your easy access. Your questions and feedback are important. Along with a downloadable PDF file, a brf file can also be made available for your convenience. Please feel free to ask or share your braille question by contacting Denise Bean at denise.bean@blind.state.ia.us.
All of us can benefit from one another’s braille skills and experience. We are always better when working together! Our goal, as braille transcribers and proofreaders, must be to envelop and embrace the knowledge of proper format and rules so that each blind person will receive the best quality of braille.
The members of our Braille Instructional Materials Center team are all certified braille transcribers. Please feel free to contact any of us with any braille questions.
Denise Bean, denise.bean@blind.state.ia.us
Jerry Cole, jerry.cole@blind.state.ia.us
Karen Cunningham, karen.cunningham@blind.state.ia.us
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4 Grade 1 Modes
7 Shortforms: What to Remember About These
Abbreviations
Accent on Letters
Accented Letters in Fully Capitalized Words
Acronyms, Abbreviations and Contractions
Activities for Spellers
Alphabetic References
Alphabetic Reference Within A Worksheet
Alphabetic Wordsign and Syllables
Annotated Bibliographies
Apostrophe, Nondirectional Single Quotation Mark
Apostrophe Replacing Numbers
Apostrophe with Dot 6
Arrows
Asterisk Placement
Bar Graph Example
Basics of Directions and Directives
Basic Indicators for Extended Modes
Be, Con and Dis, for Abbreviations
Blank Line Cheat Sheet
Blank Lines, Division and Alphabetic References
Box Line and a Running Head
Box within a Box
Calculator Keys
Capitalized Passage and Letter-Sequence
Capitalized Passage Indicator and Text Elements
Capitalization Reminder
Capitals Terminator
Caret
Cheat Sheet for Modifiers
Cheat Sheet for Numeric Mode
Checkmark
Choice of Capitalized Indicators
Commonly Looked Up Symbols
Comparing Typeform Passage Indicator and the Capitals Passage Indicator
“Con” or “Dis” Lower Groupsign Proper Use
Concept Map
Contract or Not to Contract
Contraction vs Modified Letter
Contractions Next to a Hyphen
Contractions Next to the Slash
Contractions Say No to Shortforms
Copyright Notices
Crossed-Out Letters
Crossed-Out Word
Crosses
Daily Worksheets for Elementary Students
Dedication Page
Defining Braille Order
Defintion List Reminders
Dipthongs
Directions Followed by a cell-5 Heading
Directions with Three Paragraphs
Display Material
Displayed Text in Exercise Material
Ditto Mark
Division of a Number Between Lines
Dot Locator for Mention or Use
Dot-to-Dot Puzzle
Dot-to-Dot for Younger Braille Readers
Double and Single Spacing
Double-Space or Single-Space a Title Page
Editing Marks for Kindergarten through Third Grade
Emphasis and Headings
Emphasis and When to Ignore It
Emphasized Punctuation
Empty Space Preceding a Closing Parentheses
Enough
Epigraphs Vs Attributes
Exercise Indention Pattern
Exercise Material Basics
Feminine Ending
Final-Letter Groupsigns Can and Cannot
Final Letter Groupsign Reminders
Flowcharts
Follow Print
Follow Print for Punctuation
Following Print
Formatting Graphic Novels
Formatting Reminders for Directions
Forward Slash and the Lower Groupsigns
Four New Shortform Words Added to UEB Rules
Fragments of Words
Fully Capitalized Address
Fundamentals Of Being A Transcriber
Fundamentals Of When To Omit
Grade 1 Word Indicator
Grade 1 Indicators and Capitalization
Grade 1 Indicator Optional Use
Grade 1 Passage Indicator
Grade 1 Symbol Indicator Verses Grade 1 Word Indicator
Grade 1 Symbol Indicator with a Question Mark
Grade 1 Terminator Uses
Groupsigns and Space Saving Techniques
Groupsigns con dis and be
Groupsign Used in a Prefix
Groupsigns used in Web and Email Addresses
Grouping Indicators
Guide Dots
Guidelines for use of Dialect
Horizonal Word List
Hyphen or Dash Ends Grade 1 Mode
Hyphen used as a Dash
Hyphenated Words
Hyphenated Word Division
Indexes
Initial-Letter Contractions When Not to Use
Illustration Formatting When Applying a TN
Implied or No Print Page Numbers
Importance of Placement
“ing” Review
Inserted letters
Intentional Errors
Interpoint Review
Is There A Diacritic Hyphen
Isolated Punctuation Emphasized
Keying Guidelines for a Table
Keying Long Entries
Keying Long Entries and use of Shortform
Kindergarten and First Grade Guide
Letter or Letters Sequence
Letter or Letter-Sequence Preceding a Space
Letters with Emphasis within Words
Literary Digits and Spacing
Line Indicator In Tabular Material
Line Mode and Guide Dot
Line Spacing for Young Readers
Linear Diagrams with Print Symbols
Linear Table Formats
Linear vs Simple Fraction
Lists with ONLY Some Items Bulleted
Literary Signs- Degree, Feet, Inches, and Percent
Literary Time and Date
Long Dash and Hyphen (Dash)
Long Web or Email Address
Low Line vs. Three Dot 5s
Lower Groupsign and the Capitals Indicator
Lower Groupsign and Wordsign used next to the Hyphen
Lower Groupsign “en” and “ea” Used Within a Prefix
Lower Groupsign – Which Should be Contracted
Lower Wordsign and Apostrophe
Lower Wordsigns in Contact with Typeform Indicators
Matching for Wide Columns
Medial Punctuation and Indicators
Modifiers and Capitals Word Mode
Mixing Apostrophes and Capitalized Word
Multi-Line Brackets
Multiple Emphasis in Worksheets
Nested List
Non-Alphabetic Symbol
NOT Standing Alone
Notes
Number Above the Sentence
Numbers and Letters Side-by-Side
Numeric Indicator
Numeric Mode Grade 1 Mode Terminated by Hyphen and Dash
Numeric Passage Indicator and Tables
The Numeric Space
Omit the Apostrophe “s”
Omission
Omitted Letters
Order of Braille Indicators and Other Signs
Order of Positions
Overview Grade 1 Indicator
Pages at a Glance
Page Change Indicator Guidelines
Paragraph Format
Paragraph Sign
Partial Emphasis Word Lists
Partial Paragraph Capitalization
Pictograph
Picture Description Guidelines for First through 3rd Grade
Preceding Blank Lines, Headings, All Materials
Preference
Preference Rule
Prefix vs a Compound Word
Print Reference Marks
Printing History
Pull Quotes
Pronunciation Basics
Proofreading Marks Sample
Punctuation and Indicators
Punctuation and Special Symbols
Punctuation Standing Alone
Punctuation with a Single Letter
Question Mark used after the Hyphen
Quotation Mark and Emphasis
Quotation Marks at a Glance
Reader’s Perspective
Registered and Trademark Signs
Repeated Column Headings
Review of the in
Roman Numerals Quick Overview
Rules of Punctuation
Rules of Shortforms not on the Shortforms List
Running Head Capitalization
Running Head Guidelines
Same Text with Multiple Emphasis
Sandwich Contraction
Series of Capitalized Headings
Space Formatting
Shape Configurations for Young Readers
Shaped-Letter Puzzle
Shortforms and Wordsigns used in Web and Email Addresses
Shortform as Parts of Longer Words
Shortform Standing Alone as a Plural
Shortforms used at the Beginning of a Word
Shortforms with a Suffix
Shortforms Within a Longer Word
Signs
Sidebar: what is in a sidebar
Simple List and Spacing
Single-Column Vertical Lists Without Subentries
Slash STOPS Capitalized Word and Numeric Indicator
Slash with a Space
Solidus and Wordsigns
Source
Space
Space and Punctuation
Space in General
Speech Hesitation and Slurred Speech
Spelling
Standing Alone
State Abbreviations and Contractions
Storybooks for Early Readers
Strikethrough and What to Do
Strong Groupsign “ing” mixed with Emphasis
Sound and Spelling Wordsearch Worksheet
Suffix Rules at a Glance
Syllabified Words
t-page and p-page basics
Table of Content Capitalization and Font Attributes
Table of Contents in 1 Volume
Table Reminder at a Glance
Ten Shortforms
Tic Tac Toe
Timed Reading
Timelines
Title Page Sample
Title Page Updates
Tactile Graphic or Transcriber’s Note
Transcriber’s Note Pointers
Transcriber’s Note Sample for Early Educational Materials
Transcribers Note Suggestions for a Picture
Typeform Cheat Sheet
Typeform Indicators for Early Educational Materials
Typeform Passage and Terminator Indicator
Typeform Symbol Indicator
Typeform Terminator and Ending Punctuation
Typeform Word Indicator
Typeforms and Punctuation
Uncontracted or Grade 1
Underline or Not Underline the Hyperlink
Unknown Pronunciation
Using UEB contractions Foreign Text
Variant Spellings
Venn Diagram
Web Addresses and the use of the Indicators
Website and Grade 1 Terminator
When a Tactile Graphic Is Not Produced
When Not To Use Final-Letter Groupsign
When To End Emphasis
When To Ignore Emphasis
When To Retain Emphasis
When to Use the Typeform Indicator
Which Contraction Works Best
Why is a Braille Transcriber Important
Wide Table in Print
Wide Tables, Vertical Division and Interchanged
Wide Tables, Stairstep Table Format
Word Division
Word Enclosed Within a Shape
Word Lists In Foreign Language Texts
Words Printed Above A Sentence
Wordsign
Wordsigns and Shortforms
Worksheet Example
Write-On-lines
Writing Email Addresses and File Names