Well James, forgive the laugh, LOL, but no more than 4-5% of the blind
population read Braille. Im one of the fortunate one's who can, but rarely
does.
People often try and prevale on me to do Braille transcription, but when I make
them aware of the above fact they are usually taken aback somewhat!
Ray
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----- Original Message -----
From: "James O'Dell" <jamesodell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 3:30 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: New Harry Potter book
> presumably someone has booked a slot in Stephen Fry's diary this time
> around?
>
> They have, but the audio version won't be available until August 25. is
> anyone actually going to order the braille version then? yes I admit
> braille is bulky but I'm perfectly happy to read a book in that format,
> that's what it's for after all. Like I said I would have liked to have seen
> Daisy audio, but this might well have needed to be produced using
> concatenated speech rather than a human reader. Then there is the myth that
> all blind people read braille, I encounter this a lot and wouldn't be
> surprised if it is shared by the publishers.
>
> James
>
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