[Blindmath] poorly prepared tactile graphics

[Susan Mooney]

John G. wrote: Why on earth should one pay a braille transcriber a great deal of money to produce a tactile graphic that one must order days, weeks, maybe months in advance that in the end is not readable by a blind person when there is a much
faster better way to get this information?  Do we need forever to be locked
in 19'th centurey [sic] technologies when we are now in the 21'st [sic] century?"

I would think that it comes down to cost.  A college isn't going to put out that much $$ for one student and paying for the tac to be produced by hand is most likely cheaper. OR the work is already available and no one's complained about it before. I think there's a significant amount of VI students who have unfortunately come to accept shoddy products as the norm and people who work with these students who have little to no experience.  So the tac looks great to them and they feel warm and fuzzy about it or they feel they got the kid the book and their butts are covered and they can move on ... or a combination of all of the above.

Susan M.