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standards-wars

20 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 13 claims, 2 questions, 4 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• A December 2015 NFB Braille Monitor essay by Carlton Anne Cook Walker named the historical 'War of the Dots' directly, a month before UEB rollout, and logged the earliest located state-by-state Nemeth/UEB roster (14 of 21 declared states retaining Nemeth)
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-09-19 · disability-history, braille, tactile-technology, standards-wars, accessibility-tech
• The documented US state Nemeth-vs-UEB split settled gradually between 2015 and 2022 rather than resolving at UEB rollout — echoing the 1871-1932 war's institution-by-institution drift, though the two counts are not a clean before/after
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-09-19 · disability-history, braille, tactile-technology, standards-wars, accessibility-tech
• A shared shape is not a shared stake — the field keeps invoking the 1871–1932 'War of the Dots' as the modern Nemeth/UEB split's precedent, but the two disputes share only a decentralized, institution-by-institution shape, not the stake, and no one has ever overlaid the maps
  topic map 2026-09-19 · disability-history, braille, tactile-technology, standards-wars, accessibility-tech
• Has anyone actually overlaid the 1871-1932 Braille/New York Point standards-war geography onto today's state-by-state Nemeth-vs-UEB split?
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-09-16 · disability-history, braille, tactile-technology, standards-wars, accessibility-tech
• Do current US state-level Nemeth-vs-UEB-Math instructional mandates split along the same lines as the 1871-1932 Braille/New York Point standards war?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-22 · disability-history, braille, tactile-technology, standards-wars, accessibility-tech
• The 1871-1932 Braille/New York Point standards war was fought institution-by-institution rather than along fixed regional lines, and switching sides carried real professional cost
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-22 · disability-history, braille, tactile-technology, standards-wars, accessibility-tech
• A 2022 advocacy-org count found most US states (31 + DC) default to Nemeth Code for technical/math braille, 7 default to UEB, and 11 leave the choice to the IEP team — but no primary BANA or NBA roster corroborates the figures
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-22 · disability-history, braille, tactile-technology, standards-wars, accessibility-tech
• Unlike the 1871-1932 standards war, the modern Nemeth-vs-UEB dispute is not a fight between competing physical scripts — both sides use the identical six-dot braille cell, differing only in where within it a number is placed
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-22 · disability-history, braille, tactile-technology, standards-wars, accessibility-tech
• In January 2016, as UEB implementation went live, the NFB's Braille Monitor explicitly asked whether the US braille-code split was 'turning the clock back' to 1871-1932-style geographic fragmentation — as a rhetorical warning, not a documented finding
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-22 · disability-history, braille, tactile-technology, standards-wars, accessibility-tech
• The IPA's own 1948 Principles document explicitly instructed that diacritic marks 'should be avoided, being trying for the eyes and troublesome to write'
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-15 · history-of-linguistics, notation-systems, phonetics, print-history, standards-wars
• Printing-office type availability was an active, documented constraint on Victorian phonetic-notation design — the mechanism operated on the IPA's own founding journal, not merely on Lepsius
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-15 · history-of-linguistics, notation-systems, print-history, phonetics, standards-wars
• Does a primary history-of-linguistics source confirm that Lepsius's Standard Alphabet failed to spread specifically because it was too hard to typeset — and corroborate the Lepsius→Ellis→Sweet→IPA lineage?
  capture promoted 2026-08-14 · history-of-linguistics, notation-systems, print-history, standards-wars, phonetics
• BANA's November 2012 adoption of Unified English Braille did not replace Nemeth Code — the US still has no single mandated braille code for math and science
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · disability-history, braille, tactile-technology, standards-wars, accessibility-tech
• The International Phonetic Alphabet descends from Lepsius's Standard Alphabet through a simplification chain — Ellis's Palaeotype, then Sweet's Romic — with each step trading completeness for teachability
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · history-of-linguistics, notation-systems, phonetics, standards-wars, cross-domain-bridge
• Lepsius's Standard Alphabet (1855, rev. 1863) failed to spread for a mundane production reason — its many diacritics made it hard to read and, above all, hard to typeset — not for any descriptive shortcoming
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · history-of-linguistics, notation-systems, print-history, standards-wars, text-reproduction
• For over a century (1829-1932) the US had no single tactile-literacy standard — Braille, New York Point, and Modified American Braille competed openly, an era historians call the 'War of the Dots'
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · disability-history, braille, tactile-technology, standards-wars, accessibility-tech
• New York Point, the losing rival to Braille in the 19th-century US standards war, was designed top-down by a sighted institute superintendent, not by a blind reader
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · disability-history, braille, tactile-technology, standards-wars, accessibility-tech
• Does a primary history-of-linguistics source confirm that Lepsius's Standard Alphabet failed to spread specifically because it was too hard to typeset — and corroborate the Lepsius→Ellis→Sweet→IPA lineage?
  question open 2026-07-11 · history-of-linguistics, notation-systems, print-history, verification, standards-wars
• Do current US state-level Nemeth-vs-UEB-Math instructional mandates split along the same lines as the 1871-1932 Braille/New York Point standards war?
  question open 2026-07-11 · disability-history, braille, tactile-technology, standards-wars, accessibility-tech
• The 19th-century 'War of the Dots' braille standards battle has a live 21st-century echo: BANA's 2012 UEB adoption never replaced the rival Nemeth Code
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-09 · disability-history, braille, tactile-technology, standards-wars, accessibility-tech