[Nfbk] Braille Clerk
Rick Roderick
rickrod at insightbb.com
Thu Sep 2 17:27:00 UTC 2010
Cathy,
This whole situation reminds me of what I confronted when I moved over from
being a rehab counselor for the Office for the Blind to becoming an
assistive technology specialist and braille transcriber. At that time, a
braille routine would enabled people to send documents from there computers,
to the translator, and eventually, to the embosser. Most of the people who
sent these documents knew little about braille and less about its
production. Part of my job was to explain to people why documents needed to
be formatted. I sometimes put it this way, "Turnkey braille is turkey
braille."
The stuff that people would send directly had no centering, and lines were
often run together. The only thing indicated were paragraphs.
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