Hi George,
Well, I feel, and so do at least five other people to whom i posed the
question about special symbols, that the simpler the braille codes and
signs are, the better. In other wards, many of them said the opening and
closing indicators are very frustrating to wade through and I tend to
agree. I usually use the dot 4 for the at sign and the dots 4-6 for the
periods. I don't, i must admit, know what the computer code for backslash
or tilde are. I can see why that kind of stuff needs to be addressed but
having all this opening and closing indicator stuff is totally unnecessary.
My concern too, is that if we're trying to keep braille alive and are
trying to encourrage people losing their sight and yes, even those who
already know braille, to keep using it, that they may decide it's to much
of an effort to wade through all that computer braille stuff. As I told
Warren, I had to struggle through learning braille in a short amount of
time and for the most part, had to teach myself how to read grade 2. I must
say that if i had to contend with computer braille as well as the
contracted braille, I would have put the books down and forgotten about
trying to learn it.
Thanks for reading and have a nice evening.
Respectfully, Fina B. Currey fcurrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fina B. Currey
fcurrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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