Show Seeks Standard Braille Script Blind Blaze Trail To One Alphabet D. C. Blind walking where those who see have are leading the world toward its first universal system of Under the auspices of Braille an alphabet in raised dots is rapidly being standardized across the globe to serve seven million sightless and children who use some 85 different The latest step toward world Braille was taken early this year at a conference at gathered from the Southeast and agreed on an enlarged and unified Braille script to replace local versions in use across these The next step will be a soon to be to iron out differences In Braille scripts used by Spanish speaking Blind readers in English-speaking nations have used a uniform script since 1932 when the United States adopted the simpler British Grade 2 which offered more contractions than the U.S. |