@article {3001, title = {That All May Read... National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS)}, year = {2016}, note = {

This webpage presents the National Library Service\&$\#$39;s endeavor to provide the blind and physically handicapped people with free library materials in the format of braille and audio.

}, pages = {3-5}, keywords = {Braille, education, visual disability}, url = {http://www.loc.gov/nls/}, author = {The Library of Congress} } @article {3216, title = {eBraille: a web-based translation program for Japanese text to braille}, journal = {Internet Research}, volume = {20}, year = {2010}, note = {

The author created a program called eBraille to translate Japanese into braille and tested its translation accurary. The result showed positive results, indicating the program outstnaded other stand-alone braille translation programs. The program could effectively help the visually impaired patients.

}, pages = {582-592}, abstract = {

Purpose - The authors develop a program, named eBraille, to translate Japanese text into braille and thereby generate braille documents easily. Public access to this program is provided to anyone via the Internet. The paper aims to evaluate the translation accuracy of the eBraille program. Design/methodology/approach - eBraille is a CGI program that is accessible via a web browser. The core of the program is a braille translating engine called the Kobe University Intelligent Braille Engine for ChaSen (KUIC). It is based on Japanese Braille Transcription Rules (Japanese Braille Committee, 2001). To evaluate the translation accuracy of eBraille, a corpus was utilized that was created from ordinary text and braille newspaper articles. Findings - The paper finds that eBraille translation accuracy is equivalent to or better than that of other stand-alone braille translation programs. This result suggests that the program achieved the goal of being applicable for practical use. In addition, the program is utilized to make Kobe University Hospital brochures in braille for outpatients and inpatients. The brochures are available in the hospital and are favorably accepted by the blind and the visually impaired. This result suggests that the translation program can facilitate accessibility to information for patients. Originality/value - The braille translation program is based on a client-server system and is architecture-independent. Moreover, it is a free system for creating braille text files for anyone who has access to a web browser.

}, keywords = {Braille, Japan, Machine translation, software applications, visual disability}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10662241011084121}, url = {http://search.proquest.com/docview/845848228?accountid=142596}, author = {Sugano, Aki and Ohta, Mika and Oda, Tsuyoshi and Kenji Miura and Shuji Goto and Masako Matsuura and Eiichi Maeda and Ohshima, Toshiko and Yuji Matsumoto and Takaoka, Yutaka} }