I would guess, that braille or touch reading per se will have to change substantially for those conditions. Research indicates that haptic perception and especially reading braille involves the visual cortex. stimulating this apparently interferes with one's ability to read braille. The day is possibly not far off where you will be able to wear some contraption that will feed directly into the cortex. As far off topic as it might seem permutations of a rectangle are still pretty well suited for conveying information. Maybe DBT is only a small step from the days that massive text-books were produced by slate and stylus, but a significant step however. ----- Original Message ----- From: WarrenDFig@xxxxxxx To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 8:27 AM Subject: [duxhelp] Re: Bolding, underlining, italics etc In a message dated 7/27/2004 9:53:17 AM Central Standard Time, dadurber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: Like a cabinet maker Like a cabinet maker you want good tools to work with so that making a fine transcription is no more labor intensive than it has to be. I look forward to the day when we can abandon DBT and MegaDots and have production software that makes braille easier to produce for both the novice and the professional. Warren