Comments on: Braille Struggles Under Threat From Audio Technologies http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=390 Access to technology for all Sun, 01 Apr 2018 16:32:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Hugh http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=390&cpage=1#comment-5543 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:50:21 +0000 http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=390#comment-5543 Something pointy and something to poke and you’be got Braille, anywhere anytime. Like a pencil. I much prefer technology for reading and writing but Braille doesn’t crash or have power outages or get airport security all tense and sweaty.

]]> By: Doug Sprei http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=390&cpage=1#comment-5540 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:45:06 +0000 http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=390#comment-5540 As a leading provider of assistive audio materials for the blind and print disabled communities, RFB&D is in complete agreement with Tommaso Daniele’s assertion that Braille and the new technologies are not competitive, but are complementary. Many thousands of our members read Braille, listen to audio books, and enjoy the best of what these media have to offer toward access, learning and independence.

Doug Sprei
Recording for the Blind & Dyselexic
Washington, DC
http://www.rfbd.org

]]> By: Rosemary Blaszkiewicz http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=390&cpage=1#comment-5539 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:20:48 +0000 http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=390#comment-5539 As a retired teacher of children that are blind, I agree with Tommaso Daniele. “Braill is enhanced by the new technologies”. One does not have to exclude the other.

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