That's not so, John. The fact that the student is a braille user is
important because, as I said in my earlier email, some of these
codes do not appear in brailole. Also, because braille is produced
byso many organisations, and in so many ways, now, codes are
sometimes not even the same. If a blind braille user has not had
these conventions explained to them, how will they know that this is
what you are meant to do? Capitals is a good example. I stilldon't
always know when to use them.
I agree that tutors should ensure that these things are explained to
all students, then this problem would be avoided.But I don't think it
helps not to accknowlege that braille still isn't uniform, and often
misses out things it doesn't think we need to know For instance, at
the moment the National Library is is not putting one of the
shortlisted Booker books into braille because it has so many
footnotes, etc.
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Just as an asside,
Remember, it wasn't so long ago that braille readers couldn't obtain
an unobridged copy of "lady Chatterly's Lover" in braille. Decisions
were being made about braille books and what we could or couldn't
read for us all the time. When, as abrraille reading Eng Lit student,
I asked RNIB when the unobridged versionwould appear in braille, I
was told, "when the obridged version wears out". To which I replied,
"well, it never will"! Just for the record, you can get it now.
Susanna.
Susanna Hancock
Equal Opportunities Officer
HRS
Telephone: 020 8411 6873
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