Determine what commands the Braille software reads from your word- processed version. Use upper and lower case letters instead of all caps since upper case letters take twice as much space as lower case letters when brailled. Convert columns to continuous text. Tables, graphics and pictorial representations need to be converted to text. Eliminate the use of stylistic factors such as bold type, underlining and special symbols.
Italics are the only stylistic type form that typically translates into Brailled formats.
The following list of resources is not meant to be all inclusive but will provide a starting point for entities to access braille resources. Wolfner Library is a public library for persons unable to use standard print due to a physical disability. Midwestern Braille Volunteers provide braille for literary materials and textbooks, restaurant menus, edward jones stock reports, wedding invitations, tactile drawings, thermoforming and spiral binding. They sponsor transcribing classes, maintain a book-master collection, and provide a title list. Midwestern Braille Volunteers 325 N. Kirkwood Rd.