[nabs-l] Braille being placed on the back burnner

[Justin Salisbury]

RJ, and everyone:

I do notice that many people involved in our accommodations processes try to argue that Braille is outdated and that we should depend on other means to perform academic work. Many service providers do not believe in our capacity to read Braille at useful speeds and also think of it as a daunting task to learn and produce Braille. I also often find that service providers have no understanding of the enhanced levels of reading comprehension that we can achieve from Braille versus speech. I think of this as a difference between active reading and passive reading. If I space out while reading Braille, my fingers stop. When I was sighted and reading something in print, my eyes would stop.  With speech, it just keeps going, and comprehension suffers.

I am really glad to see your passion for promoting the use of Braille, and, since you are going to the national convention, I want to encourage you to meet and mingle with some of the members of NAPUB, the National Association to Promote the Use of Braille (I hope I defined the acronym right-I know it's NAPUB). We pronounce the acronym "NAY-pub."

We, in the National Federation of the Blind, do not put Braille on the back burner at all, and this is only one of the reasons that our movement is so strong and so vital in society.

Yours,

Justin Salisbury
Board Member
National Association of Blind Students

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Aleeha Dudley via nabs-l
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2014 8:56 PM
To: RJ Sandefur; National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Braille being placed on the back burnner

Hello RJ,
Not for a moment do I believe that Braille has ever been put on the back burner. What about all the Braille  displays that we use? Do I think that we might rely on our technology a little too much? Yes, but, doesn't the rest of society?

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> On Jun 22, 2014, at 8:29 PM, RJ Sandefur via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I feel that Braille is being This was back in 2004. I bring this up in 
> order to pose this question. Aren't we as blind people depending on 
> our techknollogy to much? What if your computer brakes down, and you 
> have to use braille? If you don't know braille, then you can forget 
> about even becoming employed! RJ 
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