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newbie2
August 5th, 2010, 07:10 PM
Leuven, Belgium, 4 August 2010
– The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven) today released an extension for OpenOffice.org Writer that enables users to save documents as Braille or to send them directly to a Braille embosser. “odt2braille” (http://odt2braille.sourceforge.net/) is a freeware extension for OpenOffice.org, a office suite that is freely available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux/Unix and Solaris.
http://www.accessforall.eu/tag/odt2braille/
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forrestcupp
August 5th, 2010, 07:52 PM
That's pretty cool. So you can send your documents to an embosser and have them printed up for you?

I wonder how many blind people can actually read Braille.