Why teach the blind brail when you can just teach them the shape of the alphabet?
March 6, 2010 - 11:03 pm
Louis Braille (1809 – 1852 French !) became blind after an accident when he was 3 years old.
He went to a school for blind people and learnt to read but he couldn’t write because the letters were sewed on material.
He was 13 years old when he imagined a system of letters raised on paper with points.
Perhaps if it was today somebody would imagine another way but in the 19th…
He was inspired by a military who had made a code to communicate silently because of enemies.
I’ve learned Braille, and it’s much faster than writing/drawing shapes of the alphabet
March 7th, 2010 at 4:52 am
good question
maybe it is cheaper to produce things in braille instead of making the entire text raised.
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March 7th, 2010 at 5:42 am
its because the print of the alphabet would be extremely hard to sense through your hands when the print is small imagine tyring to feel the difference in Q and O or I and l its just easierr with the uniform dots at that font size
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March 7th, 2010 at 6:27 am
Louis Braille (1809 – 1852 French !) became blind after an accident when he was 3 years old.
He went to a school for blind people and learnt to read but he couldn’t write because the letters were sewed on material.
He was 13 years old when he imagined a system of letters raised on paper with points.
Perhaps if it was today somebody would imagine another way but in the 19th…
He was inspired by a military who had made a code to communicate silently because of enemies.
I’ve learned Braille, and it’s much faster than writing/drawing shapes of the alphabet
References :
I’m French