Braille production
We produce all of our Braille in-house, anything from a self
adhesive Braille label to an energy bill, a letter to a complex
insurance document - even Braille menus. Our Braille technicians
have considerable skill and expertise and write fluent
additional narrative that is sometimes required to enable the
Braille reader to make sense of tabula data or charts
so commonly found in financial
services documents and annual reports for example. You
can rely upon the clarity of our Braille.
Briefly, formatting commences with a process of copying and
pasting the text from the original document. This is then
checked and formatted by the technician, all text left aligned
and indents, hanging margins and so on removed and the text is
searched for page references. Page breaks are inserted in the
appropriate locations and the index (if any) is prepared.
Because the document will be up to three and a half times the
length of the original, the actual page numbers are inserted at
the end of the process. After thoroughly checking the formatted
text and ensuring all is correct per the original we can send
you a document to proof as required.
This is the last point at which we can provide a document to
proof in ASCii text..
If all is correct, we then use a high-end text-to-Braille
program to produce the Braille code. This ensures the
contractions are correctly applied - and consequently are
understandable!
The next step is embossing, and finally comb binding or treasury
tagging.It's important to know not just how to
format the text into Braille but also the really fundamental things,
such as understanding the ergonomics that make a Braille
document easy or difficult for the end-user to handle.
Finally, every Braille document we produce
is branded to reflect the corporate image of the commissioning
client. Not everyone in the receiving household will necessarily
be able to read it, but at least they'll be able to identify
where it came from; And what's more, it's all part of the
service.
We are one of the few Braille producers in the UK to format dual
Braille and large print documents.
