I also would like to give my opinion:
For me when we talk about braille we now adays have to include Braille
as a whole language both for paper and electronic braille displays.
For me Braille is literacy and can never be replaced. The blind person
should be able to write and read like everyone else. Now the question is
the cost, timing and volume of braille hard copies. About this, I
believe the braille production in hard books will be substancially
reduced with the lack of need, lack of space to store it both at home
and libraries, the speed of production and with the global crysis.
..But for me braille is also what we can read in braille displays and
also the speed we get with braille writing using the same braille keyboards.
For example when a book is produced and put available on the Kindle App
for IOS, I can have it some minutes later fully in braille because I can
read it with my braille displays And I like to be able to read, to feel
the touch of letters and have the sensation of reading.
The key point here is the cost of braille displays. No matter what we
say, they still are very expensive and not affordable so that we could
talk about the global spreading of braille.
It's true that manufacturers of braille displays are trying to reduce
the costs- For example a Focus 14 in the US costs 1295 if they didn't
change it. I have one myself and really the quolity of this product is
amazing. The braille is great, bluetooth capacities, quite keyboard.
Also when we talk about braille we should remember products like Braille
Pen from Harpo which is a braille keyboard that costs around 250 Euros.
This product really speeds up the braille writing for a lot of people.
So people who like braille like I do, should be also allowed to use
braille in a daily basis. I use braille everyday but I rarely touch a
braille hard copy of any kind of documents. I only use electronic braille.
Now as a professional musician and music teacher I can say that no
matter what people say, blind people who want to seriously learn music
specially about classic pieces they will always need to learn braille
music and who ever says the opposite either is not knowledgable enough
or is not serious.
It's true than in letters braille can be replaced but in music, it can not.
So braille is there for a longtime the point is that the way which we
are using is developping.
Cheers,
Jorge
Em 12/12/2013 13:34, dark escreveu:
I think the best example of braille size was my schools copy of the
pocket dictionary in braille.
Bare in mind the phrase "pocket dictionary" a book which all the other
kids doing english were lent a copy of and which was, ---- as the name
implies pocket sized.
The braille version was 18 volumes, each of which was slightly larger
in size than an A 4 sheet of print paper, with ahrd bindings and a
good three or four inches thick! (they were around 80 braille pages
each).
I think the only way that could be a pocket dictionary is for the Big
friendly giant! :D.
Beware the Grue!
dArk.
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