Those who never learned how to use a brailler sometimes resort to this method for all their correspondence.

And students can take the lead in their own braille education, as the audio feedback speaks the letters they enter into the brailler.

A brailler is to braille what a typewriter is to type and a computer to word processing.

Marjorie was so impressed with Mae's enthusiasm and youth that she put her at the head of the list for the next brailler.

The Mountbatten Brailler is an electronic machine used to write braille.

In the first week of 1955 she received her brailler from the League for the Deaf-Blind.

In the competition, students transcribe and read Braille using a Perkins Brailler.

Similarly, Mae pursued equipment she had heard about--a brailler with extended keys.

CNIB did not have one, but put extensions on the keys of her own brailler.

In 1951, David Abraham successfully produced the first Perkins Brailler.

The rollers that hold and advance the paper have grooves designed to avoid crushing the raised dots the brailler creates.

Brailler's death came on the 40th anniversary of the founding of the National Football League.

Alternatively, the signer may 'type' onto a table as if using a braille typewriter (see Perkins Brailler) and the receiver will place their hands on top.

She returned to her desk, put a page of paper in her brailler, and I sat beside her to resume the task scheduled for completion that morning.

The Mountbatten was developed after Lord Mountbatten left a bequest in his will for the development of a modern, low cost, portable brailler.

When we were not sitting on the couch, we were at Mae's desk, she at the brailler and I on her left dictating relentlessly.

Yesterday Mom received a phone call from the station saying my brailler was there . . . It seems I have been waiting so long for it.

Inmates who participate in the project create audiobooks, transcribe books into Braille, clean and repair Perkins Brailler machines, and resurface eyeglasses.

The Perkins Brailler, first manufactured in 1951, uses a 6-key chord keyboard (plus a spacebar) to produce braille output, and has been very successful as a mass market affordable product.

Although braille notation was designed for people who are blind or visually impaired to read, prior to the introduction of the Perkins Brailler, writing braille was a cumbersome process.

While in Boston they did another chore and visited the Howe Press where Mae obtained the much wanted end-of-the line vibrator for both her brailler and her typewriter.

The Mountbatten incorporates the traditional "braille typewriter keyboard" of the Perkins Brailler with modern technology, giving it a number of additional features such as word processing, audio feedback and embossing.

She wrote to Joan Keagey to say what a great job Mae was doing and how much the brothers' letters had improved since receiving instructions from Mae on the Perkin's brailler.

Two notable devices developed at RNC are the Mountbatten Brailler, an electronic braille writer, and the T3, a talking tactile device that helps with the reading of maps and diagrams.

The Perkins Brailler is a "braille typewriter" with a key corresponding to each of the six dots of the braille code, a space key, a backspace key, and a line space key.