{"id":4964,"date":"2022-04-19T11:01:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T15:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=4964"},"modified":"2022-04-19T11:01:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T15:01:43","slug":"attend-april-accessibility-boutique-on-braille-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=4964","title":{"rendered":"Attend April Accessibility Boutique on Braille for Beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/ihMzPMUF17WJV0lcA2nWLkvmN0uwLqdmMzNDcCAsS-RU-M9yNd92i73kwiYoDynkxukGlwsOvjq_JPgckiOx-Cn4ZMbJY9x4k8RTsPIXq6_7JW83I3G9gT-47Q=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/nfb.org\/images\/nfb\/images\/images\/nfb-logo-for-email-template.jpg\" alt=\"National Federation of the Blind logo and tagline live the life you want\"><\/p>\n<p>Have you wondered more about Braille and how it is produced? Learn about the use of this versatile system for reading and writing in our education, employment, entertainment, and other aspects of life. Join the National Federation of the Blind Center of Excellence in Nonvisual Accessibility on Tuesday, April 26, from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. Eastern time when they&#8217;ll cover the basics about Braille. Topics include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Braille\u2014how it works, how it is used<\/li>\n<li>Steps for producing Braille documents<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to BrailleBlaster, free Braille translation software<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u2026 and more.<\/p>\n<p>This accessibility boutique is great for teachers, parents of blind children, higher education professionals, librarians, and those who work with printed text that needs to be prepared for Braille production.<\/p>\n<p>Take advantage of this free opportunity.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nfb.org\/civicrm\/mailing\/url?u=25556&amp;qid=7085376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nfb.org\/civicrm\/mailing\/url?u%3D25556%26qid%3D7085376&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1650461151262000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0Cd52Rb39qXOZfa4r_1fZN\">Register for the Braille for Beginners boutique<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=4964\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you wondered more about Braille and how it is produced? Learn about the use of this versatile system for reading and writing in our education, employment, entertainment, and other aspects of life. Join the National Federation of the Blind Center of Excellence in Nonvisual Accessibility on Tuesday, April 26, from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4965,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}