ABL Alliance for Braille Literacy
The Alliance for Braille Literacy is an organization seeking to develop braille standards that promote the use of braille for the general and technical reader. For the blind to compete in education and employment in the world today, braille must keep pace with the inevitable changes that accompany the use of computers, mobile phones, and other technologies. The Alliance for Braille Literacy recognizes that the best standard in the English-speaking world today to accomplish this goal is the Nemeth Uniform Br
The primary architect of NUBS was Dr. Abraham Nemeth . He worked as a blind professor of mathematics for decades and formulated a pioneering braille math code ( The Nemeth Code for Math and Science ) that he had developed in 1946 or 1947 for his own use and that was first published in 1952 and in various refined forms in 1956, 1965, and 1972. The point is that in North America, his system, which today everyone calls simply "Nemeth," has been the only code for math and science for over six decades, a familia