Unified English Braille (UEB) is an English language braille code<\/a> standard, developed to permit representing the wide variety of literary and technical material in use in the English-speaking world today, in uniform fashion. It\u00a0is based on Standard English Braille (SEB), with some significant changes. These changes are designed to\u00a0take away ambiguity and provide\u00a0a braille code for the entire English-speaking world.<\/p>\n South Africa adopted the UEB in May 2004. During the following year, the standard was adopted by Nigeria (February 5, 2005), Australia (May 14, 2005), and New Zealand (November 2005). On April 24, 2010, the Canadian Braille Authority (CBA) voted to adopt UEB.<\/p>\n On October 21, 2011, the UK Association for Accessible Formats voted to adopt the UEB code in the UK. 2015 is the year designated in the UK for the introduction of the new Unified English Braille code (UEB). In 2015 RNIB (along with other major braille producers in the UK) are\u00a0transferring all braille production across to UEB. \u00a0From 2016, all braille produced in the UK should be in Unified English Braille.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n On November 2, 2012 the\u00a0Braille Authority of North America\u00a0(BANA) became the sixth of the seven member-countries of the ICEB to officially adopt the UEB. The Braille Authority of North America (BANA), at its November 8\u201310 2013 meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, affirmed January 4, 2016, as the date by which the United States will implement the general use of Unified English Braille (UEB).<\/p>\n On 2nd December, 2013 the Irish National Braille and Alternative Format Authority (INBAF) announced the adoption of Unified English Braille (UEB) in Ireland.<\/p>\n Among the\u00a0benefits of implementing\u00a0UEB reported by adopters are:<\/p>\n In the long run it is hoped that UEB by reducing community fragmentation among English-speaking braille users, boosting the acquisition speed of reading\/writing\/teaching skill in the use of braille\u00a0will help to\u00a0preserve braille’s status as a useful writing-system for the blind in the English speaking world.<\/p>\n We have included a new Unified English Braille font<\/a> in our braille font system\u00a0which contains all the braille symbols necessary for pharmaceutical packaging.\u00a0Our Unified English Braille Code<\/a> page contains the current braille UEB code\u00a0table and guidance on how to implement UEB on pharmaceutical cartons.<\/p>\n What is Unified English Braille? Unified English Braille (UEB) is an English language braille code standard, developed to permit representing the wide variety of literary and technical material in use in the English-speaking world today, in uniform fashion. It\u00a0is based on Standard English Braille (SEB), with some significant changes. These changes are designed to\u00a0take away […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,55],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pharmabraille.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pharmabraille.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pharmabraille.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pharmabraille.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pharmabraille.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pharmabraille.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pharmabraille.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pharmabraille.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pharmabraille.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}English speaking countries begin to implement the UEB code<\/h2>\n
Benefits of implementing\u00a0UEB<\/h2>\n
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PharmaBraille is ready for the change to UEB<\/h2>\n
Further Reading<\/h2>\n
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