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- Elizabeth Barrette (
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Elizabeth Barrette
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Invisible Literacy
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Content notes for "The Little Shadow Across the Grass"
These are the content notes for " The Little Shadow Across the Grass." Read about the Grunge. The Ghost Dance was meant to " roll…
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Setting notes for "The Little Shadow Across the Grass"
These are the setting notes for " The Little Shadow Across the Grass." Read about the Blackfeet Reservation. This map shows Glacier…
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Character notes for "The Little Shadow Across the Grass"
These are the character notes for " The Little Shadow Across the Grass." Many of the character names came partly from Blackfeet…
May 23 2010, 22:01:46 UTC 11 years ago
At the polling place the instructions were to remake the ballot using a standard optical-scan ballot. Poll workers would go over the ballot, determine the voter's intentions, mark a fresh ballot accordingly, and put it in the tabulator.
Unfortunately we weren't able to process our one and only braille ballot. The voter had put the line directly between the two candidates and we couldn't determine the voter's intentions.
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I wonder if this means we'll see a declining use of braille in elevators, ATM machines, various other signage in buildings.
O_O
May 24 2010, 00:05:10 UTC 11 years ago
That really sucks. To make that approach work, you'd really need to have an overframe that would only fit the page in one position, so the line would get drawn in a correct place.
>> I wonder if this means we'll see a declining use of braille in elevators, ATM machines, various other signage in buildings.<<
I hope not. Some places aren't really convenient for scanning and you don't necessarily want some other person reading your stuff ... if there's even a sighted person there to ask.
Re: O_O
May 24 2010, 01:31:18 UTC 11 years ago
May 25 2010, 00:17:43 UTC 11 years ago
He was able to very quickly take notes on index cards, using a stylus and a box (which I assume had a Braille grid).
He was an older gentleman, however.
In all the times I have checked out audiobooks to library patrons, only one that I know of was blind (I met her when she brought the book back because the CDs were out of order and she could not find disc one).
A new tenant in my hallway is blind. Her mailbox is labelled in Braille and English.
Thank you!
May 25 2010, 00:20:31 UTC 11 years ago
Re: Thank you!
May 25 2010, 00:49:09 UTC 11 years ago
Speaking of audio books for the blind...
Maien State Library services are here, if you want an idea of what they are like:
http://maine.gov/msl/outreach/lbph/
And argh, there was news about changes to the formats they will offer in a newsletter. But I can't find it archived on their site. I'll have to look it up in my work email tomorrow. I think you'd fin the format change interesting.
Re: Thank you!
May 25 2010, 01:27:53 UTC 11 years ago