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- Join HumanWare in your Local Area and Enter the Draw for a Brailliant BI20X!
National Braille Week is fast approaching, and as part of HumanWare’s commitment to Braille and Braille literacy, we are delighted to be hosting a series of drop-in events across the UK in partnership with regional and national sight loss organisations.
These events offer a fantastic opportunity to get hands-on experience with HumanWare’s complete Braille product range. A HumanWare representative will be available at each location to demonstrate our latest solutions and answer any questions you may have.
Featured products include:
- Brailliant BI 20X – our compact and portable Braille display
- BrailleNote Evolve – a powerful note-taking and productivity solution
- Monarch – the world’s first dynamic multi-line Braille device, capable of displaying up to ten lines of Braille simultaneously and presenting both text and tactile graphics on the same display
As a special celebration of National Braille Week, everyone who attends one of the events in person will be entered into a free prize draw to win a brand-new Brailliant BI 20X.
If you have any questions or would like further information, please contact us on 01933 415800 or email [email protected].
We look forward to welcoming you and celebrating National Braille Week together.
Tuesday 6 October
- 1:00-3:00 pm: RNIB Scotland, 12-14 Hillside Crescent, Edinburgh, EH7 5EA
Thursday 8 October
- 1:30-3:30 pm: BASIS Essex, SS16 5BP
Monday 12 October
- 2:00-4:00 pm: Braille IT, Clitheroe Library, BB7 2DG
Wednesday 14 October
- 9:30-11:30 am: Sight Support Worthing, BN11 3JT
- 10:00 am-12:00 pm: Walthew House, Stockport, SK2 6QS
- 10:30 am-1:00 pm: Sight Support Derbyshire, DE22 1BP
- 2:00-4:00 pm: Croydon Vision, CR0 2AR
- 2:00-4:00 pm: My Sight Nottinghamshire, 26-28 Heathcoat Street, Nottingham, NG1 3AA
Thursday 15 October
- 9:30-11:30 am: Vision Norfolk, NR3 3DZ
- 10:30 am-12:30 pm: Bradbury Fields, Liverpool, L14 2EP
- 1:30-3:30 pm: Suffolk Sight, IP1 3BE
- 2:00-4:00 pm: Somerset Sight, Taunton, TA1 1DG
Friday 16 October
- 9:30-11:30 am: Coventry Vision Hub, CV5 6TH
- 10:30 am-12:00 pm: Dagenham & Redbridge Adult Group
- 1:30-3:30 pm: Bucks Vision, HP19 9HH
Monday 19 October
- 10:00 am-12:00 pm: My Vision Oxfordshire, OX1 4XL
- 10:00 am-12:00 pm: RNIB, Grimaldi Building, Pentonville Road, London, N1 9JE
- 10:00 am-12:00 pm: Sight Cymru, Pontypool, NP4 6JH
- 10:00 am-12:00 pm: Guide Dogs Manchester, Gibfield Park Avenue, Manchester, M46 0SU
- 1:30-3:30 pm: NAB Northamptonshire Association for the Blind, NN3 6LF
- 2:00-4:00 pm: Sight Life, Cardiff, CF10 1BR
Tuesday 20 October
- 10:00 am-12:00 pm: Sight for Surrey, KT19 8AG
- 10:00 am-12:00 pm: Herefordshire Vision Links, Hereford, HR4 9EP
- 10:00 am-12:00 pm: Galloways, Morecambe, LA4 4AH
- 10:30 am-12:30 pm: The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow, G3 7DN
- 1:30-3:30 pm: Sensory Matters Worcestershire, Worcester, WR1 1LH
- 2:30-4:30 pm: Portsmouth Adult Group, Portsmouth, PO1 2DX
Wednesday 21 October
- 1:30-3:30 pm: Sensory Solutions, Plymouth, PL3 5QL
Thursday 12 November
- 12:00-2:00 pm: Hartlepool Vision Support, 177 York Road, Hartlepool, TS26 9EQ (Tel: 07379 859420)
The Braillists is a grass-roots community group offering high quality training and support to emerging and established braille users. We also work with family members, friends, colleagues and teachers of braille users, and connect braille users with braille technology developers and funders.
Everyone at the Braillists would sincerely like to thank our sponsors and partners.
What Is Braille?
Braille is a simple code for representing written language. We believe braille has the potential to transform the life of any blind person who has the opportunity to learn it.
Discover more about braille on this page.
Learn Braille
We support hundreds of adults to read braille by touch in a few short weeks through our innovative and approachable Braille for Beginners course. Free of charge, it comprises hard copy resources through the post and a series of short pre-recorded lessons, supplemented by email and Zoom support from highly qualified and experienced tutors.
Find out more about Braille for Beginners and register here.
There are plenty of other courses available too, for both children and adults, reading by touch or by sight. We have made a list of these on our Learn Braille page.
Perkins Repairs and Other Braille Equipment
The Perkins Brailler is the most established braille writer in use today, and even machines from the 1950s can still be serviced and repaired. We have compiled information about Perkins repairs, places to purchase Perkins Braillers, and other types of braille equipment on our Braille Equipment page.
If you are looking for braille paper, you can find it on our Braille Consumables page.
Our Aims
- Promote the value of braille as a proven literacy tool that enriches the lives of blind people.
- Support efforts to make affordable braille and tactile reading technologies available to all blind people irrespective of education and employment status.
- Provide an open forum for the exchange of ideas about the development of future braille technology.
Find Out More
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Join the conversation and meet other Braillists on our discussion forum.
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Please see our Sponsors and Partners for information on organisations who are supporting us.
Get In Touch
Email [email protected] or call 020 3893 3392. Further details on our Contact Us page.