implications of adopting the Unified English Braille Code (UEBC)--also

known as Unified English Braille (UEB). An earlier article (Wetzel & Knowlton, 2006) presented the opinions of focus groups composed of teachers, transcribers, and users on their perceptions of UEBC and its impact on their work. It ended with suggestions for future research on the production and learning of braille. The purpose of the current article is to present some comparisons of braille transcription and production in the current codes of the English Braille American Edition (EBAE), the Nemeth code, and the computer braille code (CBC) with UEBC. This report begins with a list of research questions that were presented by the Braille Authority of North America (BANA) that were relevant to the length of braille transcriptions. Following this list is a brief description of the structure of the research and the findings. The article ends with suggestions for avenues for further research that may help direct future decisions regarding UEBC. UEBC presents a system in which print symbols maintain the same form in braille regardless of the type of material that is being transcribed. To do so requires several minor changes to EBAE. In brief, the alphabetic letters are Abstract: This study compared the length of text in English Braille American Edition, the Nemeth code, and the computer braille code with the Unified English Braille Code (UEBC)--also known as Unified English Braille (UEB). The findings indicate that differences in the length of text are dependent on the type of material that is transcribed and the grade level of the text. The greater length of text in UEBC was most evident in spatial arithmetic and algebra. Page 1 of 9Analysis of the Length of Braille Texts in English Braille American Edition, the Nemeth Code, and Com..