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Development projects 2008-2011

The RoboBraille service has been granted a multi-year subsidy on an
Amendment to the Danish State Budget allocated to support social purposes.

Between 2008 and 2011 these funds are financing the ongoing operation of the service, for dissemination, and to improve the services currently offered by RoboBraille.

In terms of functional improvements, these are expected to include the following:

  • Adding formatting capabilities to the RoboBraille service, enabling the service to adequately format Braille output prior to rendition on Braille embossers.
  • Adding support for new document formats.
  • Adding full support for multi-byte Unicode documents, paving the way for support for multi-byte languages such as Russian, Chinese and Hindi.
  • Complementing the current email-based interaction model with an interface based on web-services, thus enabling institutional users to exploit RoboBraille themselves in order to provide documents in alternative formats for the benefit of print-impaired citizens.
  • Adding Braille and speech support for a range of popular foreign languages including German, French, Spanish and Russian, thus enabling print impaired users the ability to access Braille and speech material in these languages.