Would really love to know from RNIB who they got to test the Braille Scrabble
board before they put it out on sale. I would like to ask thoses testers about
how they managed the following:
1. tiles staying in position.
2 reading the tiles while holding them on the stand provided.
3 when there was a build-up of words on the board how they managed to explore
the words there without moving any of the tiles
4 why such a deep board is required, must be at least 2 inches high.
5 why there is just such a small ball for rotating the board and why the
rotating board was not tested on say a table which has a protective cloth on it.
6 Why the pale blue colour which a sighted user is familiar with was changed to
a white.
I think this is enough for starters but guess I won't get any answers to these
questions from RNIB. If anyone knows who I can address my questions to
directly I would be happy to do so and provide feedback on the answers given to
me.
Eleanor
----- Original Message -----
From: Carol.Pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Redacted sender
"carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 1:02 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Braille Scrabble
Eleanor,
Oh, I didn't know RNIB had a new one out.
If it's worse than the last one then let's not bother, but please tell me all
about it.
Carol P
----- Original Message -----
From: Eleanor Martha Burke
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 10:43 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Braille Scrabble
Hope it is OK discussing Braille Scrabble here. Purchased this game on
Wednesday and played it for the first time yesterday. The board design is
certainly changed since I first purchased it back in the 1980s when the
scrabble board was an American one and the tiles fitted in so well. Then I had
a new cheap and horrible board after my nice American one got lost in the post.
Finally today's board is very ppoorly designed in my opinion. Wonder why the
RNIB has chosen this design rather than a design where the tiles can fit in
comfortably without moving about or lifting off the board. How do current
users of Scrabble get on with the board? Very disappointed in it really for
£29.45p when you consider a mainstream one is so cheap. As the game builds up
and there are more and more tiles on the board it is quite difficult really to
explore the board without moving the tiles accidentally.
Eleanor
