Braille For The Blind

I am sick of being able to get material in foreign languages but not in braille, I am a blind person and certainly feel I'm disadvantaged because I'm not able to get material in a format suitable to my needs. Whats happened to the DDA, does this not apply now we have numerous foreign people coming into the UK?
I do live in the UK and have requested braille on numerous occasions. Under the DDA companies are supposed to provide this, as they do for foreign languages

Well if you live in the UK, you can get braille. My dad has access to braille. Get in touch with RNIB. You can also get audio books.

2009-02-07 02:46:00 by velmapip

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Not trying to be inflamatory here. It has always puzzled me.
You see signs in public buildings directing people to departments, and below the writing, you see the same message in braille fro the blind.
But how does a blind person know there is a sign there to feel in the first place?

This depends to some degree on how well thought out it has been.

In the well thought out designs - a good example here might be the braille signs for push/pull on door handles - it is intuitive because they can detect the door (with their stick or their dog - or in some cases they can still see the door but not well enough to read things and are still considered legally blind) and will reach out their hand to open it and find the braille.

In the poorly thought out designs - such as the drive through ATM's or perhaps braille on an overpass sign - well, I guess it just demonstrates that artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity!

2006-12-01 17:12:30 by Swampy_Bogtrotter

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I'm just wondering how, a friend of mines wife had a baby a couple months ago and he was born both deaf and blind unfortunately, how is it some deaf and blind people can read braille, how do they understand how to read it originally if they can't hear a person explain to them? If someone is deaf/blind from birth how would they ever know?

Giving the answer "Helen Keller" doesn't explain how to teach someone!

You start with the basics -- nouns. Water, for instance. Repetition is key. Instructors do hand-on-hand signing, which is when they introduce the subject to an object (ie, they put the child's hands in water) and then the instructor puts her hands on the child's hands and shows the child how to make the "sign" for water. Over and over, until the child learns what she is doing and what it means. Repeat this for all sorts of nouns. Then concepts can be taught, when vocabulary is built. This helps the child communicate to normal people. But since the child cannot see, normal people must be able to spell out words into the child's hands, or offer them braillle, to communicate with them. So, once the child can sign and understands what objects are, spelling can be taught. So the instructor will put the childs hands into water, for example. The child does the sign for water, and the instructor confirms that the child is right. Then the instructor will introduce the braille "spelling" of it, or, as with helen keller, teach the child the alphabet and spell out each letter into the child's hand. Again, repetition is key.

This could take decades to perfect, but children are resilient and human beings require communication, so the motivation to learn is there. There are also tools available now, special hearing aids that create vibrations in the ear and while the child doesn't "hear" what we hear, they can hear noises and such. You should research the story of Emma, Zoe and Sophie Hooker, they are deaf-blind triplets. Their story aired two days ago on Discovery Health.

2009-08-10 07:23:25 by Seth'asaurus Rex.

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why is there braille on signs on walls etc because wouldnt the blind person have to have seen it to know where it is on the wall?

I never knew that. And also sometimes at the crosswalks they have those special buttons for blind people to cross and they have a sound or something, I never understood those because I though that if a blind person was walking around to find the yellow button he/she'd walk in the street and die.

2009-06-24 14:28:28 by James

You see braille everywhere in public places. I am just wondering how they even find it to read it?
This is a serious question.

Easy. Standardized placement. If you look closely, the Braille is for the most part in the same places on signs.
Hotel/Motel room signs are at the same height and distance from the doors.
ATM signs are about the same.
Universal placement means not having to touch everything just to "see" where it is or what it says.

2009-09-08 23:02:37 by gx2holmes