Well tom I have had to buy braille paper from my local blind org and
for members it can be quite cheap.
but for normal schools and such or anyone that is not a member the
paper can cost upwards of 200-400 dollars a rheme.
something like 50 up a sheet and thats just standard grades.
Though to be honest in this day and age previding you have access to
such and are funded the price of getting a braille display or note
taker and maybe the right conversion tools and such electronic brf
files are quite inexpensive to produce once you spent the up front
costs on a unit and the translater programs ofcause.
As for an embosser, If you have access to one there aparently is a
language to turn your documents into scripted programs to be printed.
I was offered to learn once a long time ago the language to code my
own docs and to have access to the unit remotely in question but it
never got off the ground doesn't mean that some time down the road I
may try, I'd actually like to try and see if I could program my own document.
At 11:14 PM 12/4/2013, you wrote:
Hi Dark:
Well, there is some truth to braille embossing being prohibitively
expensive compared to a print book or menu. I remember when I was in
high school and one of the complaints my local high school had about
taking me on as a mainstream student was the cost of getting my
textbooks from APH. I was absolutely floored to discover while the
average print textbook was about $25 APH was asking for about $2,000
per textbook in braille. That was absolutely insane, but now that I
have gotten a bit older and wiser I understand why.
For one thing it probably cost them $50 for a standard box of braille
paper, and twice that if they used the plastic sheeting used in most
textbooks. So figure about $100 tops for the blank pages. The plastic
binders they put the books in probably added another $20 or so to bind
the books. So just in raw materials we have already increased the cost
by a factor of 5. I suspect the rest of the cost was markup on APH's
part to pay employees and the use of their equipment.
The thing is if I ask company x to braille this or that book, a
gamebook for example, they are naturally going to go to APH to have it
done not knowing that the raw materials while expensive are a fraction
of what APH etc will actually charge them for the final product. That
cost of course will get put off onto us, the customer, and that is why
you will get the typical its prohibitively expensive type response
from companies, because they aren't going to invest in the equipment
etc to do it themselves, and even if they did the cost of the
materials would cost a bit more than standard printed materials
doubling or tripling the cost of the final product.
Cheers!
On 12/4/13, dark <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Tom.
>
> You do certainly have a point there, certainly in my family with three
> visually impared people, two of whome, (my mum and I), braille users,
> brailling board games is something we've done for years. Indeed over
> christmas we'll probably play some card games or maybe Yachzee, and if we
> play Yachtzee my mum and I will both braille score sheets.
>
> Although when I investigated getting fighting fantasy books done,
I was told
>
> that the cost would be prhibitive, which is of course the concern since
> while braille embossing isn't itself an intrinsically expensive process as
> usual with anything to do with accessibility, you can put on several extra
> zeroes.
>
> I actually got a great example of this recently when going to Tgi fridays
> with my brother. This is one of the few restaurant chains in the Uk that
> has braille menus, (I assume they do in the states as well). However, their
>
> braille menu is about two years out of date, and still shows things they no
>
> longer serve, not to mention missing off their specialist offer.
>
> when I asked why this was I was told that getting a new braille menu
> embossed would be too expensive.
>
> This isn't to say it's a bad idea, just that with any coorporation I am
> scheptical of motives, ---- still if you don't ask, you don't find out.
>
> Beware the Grue!
>
> Dark.
>
>
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