TY - GEN
T1 - An overview of the new 8-dots arabic braille coding system
AU - El Ghoul, Oussama
AU - Ahmed, Ikrami
AU - Othman, Achraf
AU - Al-Thani, Dena A.
AU - Al-Tamimi, Amani
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Considering the rapid technological development and especially for assistive technology, the six-point Braille system has become insufficient to meet the needs of the blind and enable them to read, write content, and, to publish accessible documents. This system is not sufficient to write and produce scientific contents that contain several symbols. Despite this need, the Arabic language still lacks an eight-point coding system. In this context, this paper aims to present a unified eight-point Braille system and present it to Arab communities to get benefit from it in developing digital content for blind people. The Arabic language differs from the Latin and other languages in the number of letters and diacritics, which makes the coding system different from the one used in these languages. In this work, we studied the symbols used in the Arabic language and the current Braille system and looked for methods and recommendations regarding the design of the eight-point Braille system. A methodology and a set of principles have been identified that have been adopted in preparing the system, and rules for coding have been established.
AB - Considering the rapid technological development and especially for assistive technology, the six-point Braille system has become insufficient to meet the needs of the blind and enable them to read, write content, and, to publish accessible documents. This system is not sufficient to write and produce scientific contents that contain several symbols. Despite this need, the Arabic language still lacks an eight-point coding system. In this context, this paper aims to present a unified eight-point Braille system and present it to Arab communities to get benefit from it in developing digital content for blind people. The Arabic language differs from the Latin and other languages in the number of letters and diacritics, which makes the coding system different from the one used in these languages. In this work, we studied the symbols used in the Arabic language and the current Braille system and looked for methods and recommendations regarding the design of the eight-point Braille system. A methodology and a set of principles have been identified that have been adopted in preparing the system, and rules for coding have been established.
KW - 8 dots Braille
KW - Accessibility
KW - Assistive technology
KW - Braille
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-58796-3_40
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-58796-3_40
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85091479415
SN - 9783030587956
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 339
EP - 345
BT - Computers Helping People with Special Needs - 17th International Conference, ICCHP 2020, Proceedings
A2 - Miesenberger, Klaus
A2 - Manduchi, Roberto
A2 - Covarrubias Rodriguez, Mario
A2 - Penáz, Petr
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 17th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2020
Y2 - 9 September 2020 through 11 September 2020
ER -