Make Your Online Business More Accessible To The Blind

The BBC recently reported about RoboBraille.org, a free service that converts your documents in braille.

A Danish company, RoboBraille provides (free to all non-commercial users) a conversion service by email. You send them files in plain text, rich text, html or Word by e-mail and then shortly you receive back your information as an MP3 audio file or as electronic Braille.

Electronic Braille “can be read by a tactile display - a device connected to the computer with a series of pins that are raised or lowered to represent the Braille characters - or sent to a Braille printer”. The following can currently be done:

• Translate documents into contracted Braille
• Translate documents into speech
• Translate text into visual Braille
• Convert text documents between different character sets
• Convert Braille documents to specific Braille character sets
• Partition documents into smaller parts

Shortly about to add PDF document conversion, the company currently processes about 400 conversions a day, but can handle 14,000. Take a look for free conversion to braille.