[access-uk] Re: The Benefits of Braille - for Tink

  • From: "Iain Lackie" <ilackie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 20:35:48 +0100

Ray,
That would be ok if that was what they said. However, they expect other organisations to provide material for blind and partially sighted people in the medium of their choice but somehow this message doesn't seem to always work its way down. The person who was with me at this event was amazed at the almost dismissive attitude shown towards Braille.


Iain.
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Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 8:16 PM
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Iain. Not surprised at what you say, either about obtaining a Braille copy of the report or what it is saying.

A friend of mine had one heck of a job to get correspondence from them in Braille when attempting to buy a computer from them - an order which he canceld. The Braille he did get was attrocious.

I guess its people in their forties, and even older folk like me, who are being forced to accept that Braille just doesn't fit into the schemes of RNIB, or many others, now. The message is, never mind choice, its the cost that counts.
Ray


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----- Original Message ----- From: "Iain Lackie" <ilackie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 7:43 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: The Benefits of Braille - for Tink



I have just received a publication from RNIB (it took a great effort to get
it in Braille) Called Sight Problems: Changing The Way We Think About
Blindness. In this booklet it says:
'there are systems of reading by touch such as Braille. There are
20,000-25,000 people who use Braille regularly, and many more make use of
Braille labelling on signs, in lifts and on packaging. However, it is
unusual for people losing their sight in later life to learn the system.'


This sounds to me almost like damning with faint praise. I am sure that more
people would give Braille a go if they had the opportunity and if the
benefits were emphasised rather more than the difficulties. I am not really
sure at whom this publication is aimed but what it has to say about Braille
doesn't encourage anyone who has lost their sight in later life to attempt
to take it up.


Iain.
----- Original Message ----- From: "James O'Dell" <jamesodell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 2:45 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: The Benefits of Braille - for Tink



But the enigma in this case is how to preserve braille at all, if the vast
majority of blind people are older and don't have the opportunity to learn
it.


James
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