[HPFGU-OTChatter] Google's Braille logo today

[Dina Lerret]

On 1/4/06, Sherry Gomes <sherriola at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Actually, if you're sighted, you'd learn to read braille with your eyes, not
> your fingers.  At least, that's how all sighted people, teachers and
> transcribers i've known all my life read it.  a sighted person's fingers
> haven't developed the sensitivity to distinguish the individual dots.

Aye, usually.  Though, sometimes, we had *attempted* ('attempted'
being the keyword here {g}) to 'read' through touch and mostly failed.
 It was all part of some teachers 'expanding the youth of America's
horizons'. {g}  This was *years* ago.  A friend from work picked sign
language while she was in school and I was rather amused by the one
for 'bullshit' (there are a couple variations): you close your middle
three fingers and keep thumb and pinky up (bull's head) and then you
flick your fingers from your other hand out on the elbow that makes up
the "bull's end".  After all this time, I remembered that and
'asshole'. {snort}  Youth of America, indeed.


> happy birthday, Louis Braille.  thank you for giving me the gift of words!
>
> i am an avid reader and have been since a teacher first put my hands on a
> book in first grade, many years ago.  Though most of my reading is done by
> audio now, Braille is still precious and the means of literacy in my life.
> if i love a book, or need to write a quick note, it's always braille i want.
> That's why, for instance, I have all the HP books on audio, but I also have
> them in braille and wish i could have every book i love in braille.

Cool beans!  I remember awhile back you may have participated in a
thread on 'reader software' like JAWS and whatnot.  The human mind and
its ability for coming up with solutions is fascinating... though,
considering how much trouble some of us get into, we need
problem-solving abilities. ;-)

Dina