NAB prints first braille for visually impaired
India is home to 1.2-crore visually impaired people of which 56 lakh are literate. Even with such a sizeable visually impaired academic textbooks, audio books and the odd newspaper in Hindi and Marathi are the few resources for visually impaired people.
21 May 2014 | By Mihir Joshi
NAB prints first braille for visually impaired
It is only about a year ago that a lifestyle magazine in English is becoming available to them.
White Print, a new monthly out in May, has sections on food, travel, gadgetry, even politics—everything that sighted people take for granted in the multiple publications that serve them. Where other periodicals have book reviews, this one reviews audio books instead.
The magazine is printed at National Association for the Blind’s Braille Press. It has two conventional presses – Krause Automatic Press and Platon hand-operated Press; one computerised Braille Plate Embossing Machine – Puma VI and Computerized Embossers – Braillo 400 – S and Index 4 Waves Pro. It is one of the largest Braille production units in India.
Apart from this lifestyle magazine, the Braille Press prints textbooks of all subjects – including Math and Science – for English and Marathi medium students of Class I to XII in Maharashtra.
Read the comments by Upasana Makati, publisher, White Print, here.
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