[NFB-Braille-Discussion] Braille transcribers and perkins braillers

[Josh Kennedy]

Hi,

Correct me if I am wrong, but when you take the transcriber certification course, you have to write a 35-page manuscript using a perkins brailler or a slate. So I am guessing that braille transcribers still use perkins braillers for some stuff? 
My next question is do you have to be a sighted person in order to be a braille transcriber? Or can totally blind people also be braille transcribers for certain material these days and either have their own transcribing business, or work for a company transcribing materials?

Josh


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