Braille your Way, on your Terms: Introducing Braille Page-size Customization to Scribe for Documents!
TVI’s and Braille transcribers, this one’s for you!
You’ve no doubt been down this road before. You receive a brand-new assignment from the teacher at the last minute, with the need for a hardcopy Braille conversion near non-negotiable. Being the morning of, you haven’t the time to give it the once-over within your Braille translation software, since you already have to convert it from PDF to Word with another application beforehand anyhow. You do a quick conversion, run it through your smaller embosser at home, and rush it to the student for their first-hour class in which it’s needed and…what’s this? Parts of lines spilling over onto other lines? Oddly inconsistent page numbers? You take a quick look, reprint it on your large embosser and, just as you thought, the software had been set to fit the document to the wrong paper dimensions.
But this really isn’t user error, particularly when dealing with a time-sensitive emergency such as this. Most traditional Braille translation software is great at what it does, but one of the things it was never truly designed to do is to handle a just-in-time Braille conversion gracefully. And while last-minute surprises are far from ideal, they are unfortunately inevitable, thus the need for a software package that will maximize simplicity while not at all compromising on quality.
Just-in-Time Braille Remediation, with Fine-tuning Made Easy!
Making documents accessible should be straight-forward and simple, the way a well-designed kitchen appliance is simple. With easy-access dials and buttons, a clear and logical user-experience flow, and help available when needed, Scribe’s workflow has been designed to make document conversion as easy as 1, 2, 3. As such, we are proud to bring this signature user-experience simplicity to Braille remediation!
When you convert an inaccessible document into Braille, you will be presented with some useful formatting options. In addition to the standard language and Braille translation table settings, the following controls are now available:
Cells-per-line
Not near your big production-grade embosser, but need Braille in a pinch? No problem! Set your paper width to a smaller value, and get instant peace of mind knowing that your student will be able to read the material without issue.
Page-Splitting
In situations where your document will benefit from hard-fast page rules, Scribe will now allow you to split the Braille file into pages. You can further choose how many lines should be on each page.
The End Result…
Ready-made Braille in minutes! Now that Scribe has saved you precious time by converting the document into Braille and taking care of the page-sizing for you, you can spend the time that you do have proofing the Braille for its content, rather than tangling with a complex beast of an application. In other words, Scribe allows you to work smarter, not harder. Why not take it for a test-drive today?!