<div dir="ltr"><div>Yeah, SimBraille is mainly a problem when you're labeling things in tactile graphics and printing them on a brailler, because the brailler is trying to reproduce exactly the image that it sees, so you get the extra dots. Text only braille typically just sends the text information to the printer.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't have experience directly with refreshable braille displays, but I've seen them. Logically I think it would be way more complicated, slower and less accurate for them to react to the appearance of the font. You could probably change the font to anything and it would give you the same result on a typical refreshable braille display.</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Xanth King</b></font><div><font face="georgia, serif">Accessible Formats Technology Specialist</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><span>Pronouns</span>: <span>They</span>/<span>Them</span>/Theirs</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Wheeler Hall, Basement Level, </font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">Room 22</span></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM Deborah Armstrong via athen-list <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-1400296770086059581">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">SimBraille is just another font. Why not insert it in a few places and give your student a chapter to test.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">They should be able to read Grade 1 Braille without you needing to do much extra.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] Is SimBraille in Word documents compatible with refreshable braille displays?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-1400296770086059581gmaildefault"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">I am working on formatting a textbook for a blind student that contains both print and braille. The student has asked if I could insert SimBraille into the word document
where braille appears so they can simply plug in their refreshable braille display for those sections. I've not heard of this method before, and I do not have a refreshable braille display to test it out. Has anyone tried this method and had success? Or is
this not possible due to the complexity of braille code? </span></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-1400296770086059581gmaildefault"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Thank you so much for your insight!</span></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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