IN my view, UEB is an abomination. It panders to the thoughts and wishes of sighted people, people who will never understand our ways as #
Blind people. People who continue to make assumptions instead of actually taking the time to even be interested in how we do things or even contribute to society. People who won't even give us a chance to have jobs without being forced into it by the system of laws that allows for us to even be considered. Why is it that we pandered to these folks by changing our only code? #
Braille belongs to blind people, not to anyone else. It is specifically our code and I refuse to change my stance on this. It is shameful that we changed a code that has been around for 2 centuries now yet I use it because it is required, even though I did not grow up with such a change in code.
Sean Randall
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Web and email addresses are just one huge example.
I use old braille for my own personal stuff but, quite frankly, knowing the difference between a brace and a bracket when working with coders is vitally important to me. Being able to be polite when using someone's name with an accented letter in Braille was sometimes impossible with the old code, as was using some punctuation in ways outside of the norm for literary English.
UEB makes Braille bulkier in the reading and adds a layer of extra space for a lot of symbology, but it does unify the english-speaking codes and allow for the widest range of communication in technical language too.