#learning braille

[disability-can-be]

Good morning, low-battery pals!

Today I found an awesome kickstarter for a product called the BrailleDoodle. It is a double-sided pad designed to teach Braille on one side. The other side is a blank grid of magnetic balls that can be lifted with the magnetic stylus, allowing any shape of tactile art or writing to be made. It's like a touchable Etch-a-Sketch! They have guides for the blank side as well, so you can have a little help too.

They have a special going on for the first ten days of the campaign, with each BrailleDoodle being $70. The project is already fully funded! Here is the link if you would like to explore!

(I am not related to this project in any way, just sharing a cool thing I found.)

I hope you all have a wonderful day! Don't forget to wash your water bottle!

[crowsworks]

I too am now going to learn braille in spite of anon. Thank you anon for giving me the motivation of spite to learn braille.

some people think i learned braille for Cool Points but i actually learned it bc my medicine holder has the days printed in braille and i forget to take my medication a lot. i didnt feel like turning on a light one night just to see my medication so i learned braille out of spite. now everytime i go anywhere i have to read the braille signs and i have seen “woman” misspelled as “noman” SEVERAL times.

[lazylittledragon]

ok someone please correct me if i'm wrong but am i weird for thinking those 'audiobooks don't count as reading' posts are ableist as fuck????

[tea-cat-arts]

Actually, I hope Jiaoqiu stays blind (at least for a couple years in our time) and just bullies the Xianzhou alliance into inventing disability aids and treating disabled people better

[m3nt4lly-1ll-1ph0n3]

Chat do we fw blind narrator HC

@an-theduckin

[koolaidashley]

I imagine they would learn braile later on for The Ultimate Prank™

You’re absolutely right they would

[detectivejimmykudo]

Conan why the fuck do you know braille

[my-mom-named-me-duck]

so I'm going blind everyone should know that about me by now and because of that I know braille and back when I wasn't home schooled (like middle school and freshmen year) I would write vulgar notes to my bullies fully in braille but written with a pen so they'd have to manually translate it and I never got in trouble because even if the kids translated it the principal wasn't gonna fact check it because I made em long

i also wrote a bunch of swear words on a poster when I was in a mental hospital (we were making it because we were the first batch of kids in that building) and they never checked it and I'm pretty sure its still up and I'm very happy about that

i also taught plenty of other kids at that hospital how to write swear words in braille

The moral of the story is don't give a god of chaos a secret language

[lottieurl]

wait this is brilliant

[apollos-boyfriend]

i think my grandpa is in the middle of a duolingo lesson rn which is insane because he is already fluent in like 6+ languages. i think you can slow down a bit king this isn’t pokemon you don’t gotta master them all

[gwyoi]

There was a blind lady talking about how reading braille is different from print and for some reason I felt like she looked familiar and then I realized she kinda looks like heejin

Like that’s her Russian cousin????

[qrevo]

our current uni project is to train an Ayy-Eye™ that can read braille and it's actually really fun min-maxing the parameters to increase the accuracy by 0.1% it feels like i'm playing a puzzle or trying to solve a rubiks cube the most contrived way possible

[undead-potatoes]

People who are snobbish about audiobooks are so weird. We've both experienced the same words, gone through the same journeys with the same characters, had the same opportunities to connect with a piece of art, but because someone used their ears instead of their eyes it's somehow all invalid? Truly bizarre.

[skincareroutine]

i love asl so much it rlly is like the one language id love to be born with i mean i read a book about how we are technically born knowing asl like theres this thing called baby sign language and scientists have studied how babies can communicate with one another and w their care giver thru hand motion but idk the only downside of asl is i need both my hands free to form like a full sentence

[kitty-ception]

soo.. apparently my eye doctor suspects i have optic nerve swelling in the back of my eyes,, uhm 😋

so my parents are suggesting i should take a break from screens for a while.

cya’ll in a few weeks i guess!! 👋☹️

[runawaymarbles]

Braille book experiment no. 2: the problem with using, as one’s practice text, a work in which the author regularly shortens words like “with” and “the” to “wif” and “da” is that due to Braille’s contractions of common word and letter groupings, this actually makes the text longer.

but being able to fit 17 characters to a row with 19 rows a page that puts me at 329 characters per page, including spaces. If we guesstimate a 5k text being at about 30,000 letters including spaces, that would make 5k about a 90 page book— keeping in mind that pages cannot be double sided and are thicker than print pages because the paper is heavier and also because there are raised dots on one side.

If I cut a line I could add page numbers to the bottom, but that would put me down to 312 characters per page. Or I could manually add page numbers to the corner with a stylus. But then I’d have to buy a stylus 🤔

(Image description: two Braille pages containing most of the first paragraph of My Immortal)