Welcome

What we do

fingers touching brailleThe Australian Braille Authority (ABA) oversees the development and maintenance of braille codes and specifications used in Australia, acts as a braille accreditation body, and promotes braille as the primary literacy medium for people who are blind, deafblind, or have severe vision impairment.

Resources

New pages and information recently added to our website include:

Unified English Braille (UEB) is the official braille code for use in Australia. We recommend these resources to assist teachers, parents and transcribers in learning and understanding UEB and its use in Australia:

 Our structure and objectives

The Australian Braille Authority is a sub-committee of the Round Table on Information Access for People with Print Disabilities Inc.

The ABA is managed by an Executive Committee and has Regional Braille Forums.

The ABA Executive Committee meets regularly by teleconference and usually once a year in person for detailed consideration of priority issues.

The ABA was established in 1981 and operates with these Objectives. The ABA’s Terms of Reference (zip doc & brf 46kb) were adopted in August 2011 and amended in November 2012. In addition, these Model Operational Guidelines for Regional Braille Forums (zip doc & brf 46kb) were made under Clause 32 of the Australian Braille Authority’s Terms of Reference (adopted August 2011) and were approved by the ABA Executive at its meeting of 10 August 2011.

Annual reports

The ABA holds its general meeting in April or May each year as part of the Round Table Conference. At these meetings, reports are presented by the ABA Chair and each Regional Forum.

Further annual reports, minutes, workshop materials and newsletters can be found in our archives.

More information

For more information about the Australian Braille Authority and related matters, please contact us.

Our website

Thank you for visiting the Australian Braille Authority website.
Please visit again soon as we continue to grow the site and add topics of interest.
Suggestions for improvements are invited and should be sent to aba@printdisability.org.


link to Round Table websiteThe Australian Braille Authority is a subcommittee of the Round Table on Information Access for People with a Print Disability Inc.

Last updated: September 23, 2023 at 12:51 pm