This plugin allows you to incorporate SimBraille or BRL formatted text from English text.

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James Smith

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The Braille plugin provides a number of Braille-related services to WordPress 
websites and the Anthologize WordPress plugin.
<h4>Short code</h4>
A <code>braille</code> short code is available for translating English text into 
Braille. For example:
<pre><code>[braille]Text to be translated into Braille.[/braille]
</code></pre>
Depending on how the plugin is configured, this will place either UTF-8 
SimBraille in the page, or the ASCII sequences used when embossing on paper.
<h4>Page Part Translation</h4>
Primarily designed for testing, different parts of a site may automatically 
be translated into Braille.
Depending on how the plugin is configured, this will place either UTF-8 
SimBraille in the page, or the ASCII sequences used when embossing on paper.
<h4>Integration with Anthologize</h4>
The Braille plugin provides a Braille output type for the <a href="http://anthologize.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Anthologize 
plugin</a>. You may select BRL or SimBraille output. 
BRL is suitable for embossing. SimBraille produces an HTML file with UTF-8 
encoded glyphs representing the embossed form of the characters suitable for 
display in a visual interface.
**N.B.: This plugin requires 
<a href="https://code.google.com/p/liblouisutdml/" rel="nofollow ugc">LibLouis</a> installed on the same 
system as the WordPress site or access to a remote service providing 
LibLouis functionality. <a href="https://github.com/umd-mith/braille/blob/master/USING-REMOTE-LIBLOUIS-AMI.md" rel="nofollow ugc">A free and public Amazon machine image is available 
with the necessary software installed and configured.</a>
<h4>Configuration</h4>
The plugin uses <a href="https://code.google.com/p/liblouisutdml/" rel="nofollow ugc">LibLouis</a> to 
translate English text into Braille. You either need LibLouis installed on 
the same machine as your WordPress installation or access to a remote 
LibLouis service such as the one provided by the 
<a href="https://github.com/umd-mith/braille/tree/master/remote-liblouis" rel="nofollow ugc">example remote LibLouis service</a>.
<ol>
<li>
Go to Plugins screen and find the Braille plugin in the list OR select 
the Braille Plugin from the list of available Settings (see the first 
screenshot).
</li>
<li>
Click on the plugin to go to the configuration screen.
</li>
<li>
Select “Local” or “Remote” LibLouis.
<ol>
<li>
If “Local” LibLouis, place the full path of the executable in the text 
box (e.g., <code>/usr/local/bin</code>).
</li>
<li>
If “Remote” LibLouis, place the full URL of the JSON service in the 
appropriate text box (e.g., if using the example remote-liblouis service 
mentioned above, use the <code>braille.json</code> endpoint). [Information is 
available on using a free and public Amazon machine image to provide the 
remote LibLouis service.](https://github.com/umd-mith/braille/blob/master 
/USING-REMOTE-LIBLOUIS-AMI.md) See the second screenshot for where the 
remote service URL is configured.
</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>
Select the appropriate options for which parts of the website should be 
translated to Braille. If you are using this plugin to provide Braille 
translation for Anthologize, you do not need to select anything here.
</li>
</ol>

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