[access-uk] Re: BRAILLE ON PACKAGING
- From: Vincent Thacker <vince@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 21:16:23 +0200 (CEST)
Capitals have their place in print, don't they, if only to make communication
clearer. I don't really get why the British Braille system ever did without
them.
Vince.
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Message Received: Jun 09 2014, 04:08 PM
From: "Peter Beasley"
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc:
Subject: [access-uk] Re: BRAILLE ON PACKAGING
Personally, I don't like the use of the capital sign in Braille. I'm not an
avid Braille reader but why waist a whole cell just to indicate that the
following letter is a Capital. in ----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Hornby"
To:
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 3:56 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: BRAILLE ON PACKAGING
> Steve says
>
> "If we don't have caps, we have illiterate blind people who don't
> know how to write in the sighted world."
>
> If that was the case, are those that left school in the
> 1960s and 70s on average illiterate!
>
> Also, lets not forget grade 2 Braille.
> Should grade 2 Braille be allowed, given fact
> The grade 2 Braille abbreviations are not in print.
>
> So most users of grade 2 are unable to spell correctly!!!!
>
>
> Derek
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of
> Steve Nutt
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 11:18 AM
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: BRAILLE ON PACKAGING
>
> Hi,
>
> I disagree.
>
> If we don't have caps, we have illiterate blind people who don't know how
> to
> write in the sighterd world. They write everything in lower case. And
> don't get me started on spelling because of contracted Braille.
>
> All the best
>
> Steve
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of
> Derek Hornby
> Sent: 08 June 2014 00:26
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: BRAILLE ON PACKAGING
>
> And real Braille is not print. Sadly some people are trying to make
> Braille more like print.
> We don't need to show capital letter in Braille.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of
> Iain Lackie
> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2014 10:16 PM
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: BRAILLE ON PACKAGING
>
> Braille is not a language. Perhaps if this misconception was laid to rest,
> more people might be more willing to learn.
>
> Iain
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 7 Jun 2014, at 02:03 pm, "Eleanor Martha Burke"
> wrote:
>
>
> I think I would put it down to an error of the person labelling not being
> familiar with the language of Braille and putting wrong labels on the
> produce rather than a deliberate breach of any Act on the part of the
> company.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Shaun O'Connor
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2014 1:53 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: BRAILLE ON PACKAGING
>
> As a point of interest I wonder if Braille mislabelling could count
> as being breach of the trades descriptions act?
>
> On 07/06/2014 13:36, carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
> Let us know what you find out and glad it wasn't worse!
> Carol P
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Macrae"
>
> >
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> To:
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> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2014 12:40 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] BRAILLE ON PACKAGING
>
>
>
>
> As some of you know I was recently asked to write a
> piece for the Guardian on Braille and hopes for the future. In that piece
> I
> mentioned that The co-Op labels many, though not all of its own brand
> lines
> in Braille. Today, however, I found a discrepancy between the print and
> Braille packaging. I bought a pack of Co-Op bran flakes. Thankfully I
> don't have to rely solely on the Braille to identify products because the
> Braille said that the pack contained Golden Honey Nut Corn flakes. I'll
> have to go back and determine weather all of the packs are labelled
> wrongly
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