BRL: Braille through Remote Learning

The following is a list of areas where changes have been made. A mention here does not indicate that all of the rules for that topic have been changed but indicates that some portion of the rule has changed from previous formats.

Paragraph format
Anglicized material
Freestanding prefixes,suffixes,and proportions of words
Transcriber's notes for identification of four or more abbreviations or special symbols
References to identifying dot numbers and source materials
Attributions
Title pages
Content pages
Italics used for all grade levels
Special type faces
Emphasised letters in words
Headings
Mathematic signs
Plural dates
Slash mark
Grouping symbols for four or more listed words or phrases
Boxes
Columned material
Alphabetic divisions in Indexes
Tables
Play format
Poetic lines within narrative text
Scansion, accents, and meter
Hymnals and songs
Extraneous or miscellaneous material
Exercise material
Directions for exercise material
Exercise answer choices
Lists of spelling words
Omitted portions of words indicated by the dash
Underscoring of words
Crossword puzzles
Unstressed diacritics (formerly simple respelling)
Glossaries, dictionaries, thesaureses, handbooks

Developed by

The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.
in cooperation with the
North Carolina Central University
and the Governor Morehead School for the Blind