Join Shaun Preece as he explores the importance of learning Braille for blind or partially sighted individuals. Despite the advancements in technology, Shaun highlights the benefits of being able to read and write in Braille. He shares his personal journey and regrets for not learning Braille earlier and discusses its potential uses in education and employment. Shaun also reviews four Braille learning apps: Braille Academy, Braille Decoded, Pocket Braille, and Bump Bump Braille Learn, providing valuable feedback on their accessibility and usability. Tune in to discover the power of Braille and learn about resources available from local sight loss organizations.
Join Shaun Preece as he explores the importance of learning Braille for blind or visually impaired individuals. Despite the advancements in technology, Shaun highlights the benefits of being able to read and write in Braille.
He shares his personal journey and regrets for not learning Braille earlier, and discusses its potential uses in education and employment.
Shaun also reviews four Braille learning apps: Braille Academy, Braille Decoded, Pocket Braille, and Bump Bump Braille Learn, providing valuable feedback on their accessibility and usability. Tune in to discover the power of Braille and learn about resources available from local sight loss organizations.
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About Shaun of the Shed
Shaun of the Shed gives those new to the world of technology a helping hand with everything from using a screen reader or smart speakers to unboxing and starting up a new computer.
Host Shaun Preece is an audio producer from Manchester who has a real passion for technology. Despite being born with a visual impairment, Shaun's sight has worsened over the years and as such he has depended more on assistive technology.
You can also hear Shaun on AMI's Double Tap podcast, airing weekly at noon Eastern on AMI-audio or download it from your favourite podcast platform.
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Shaun Preece:
Hello, you beauties and welcome to 2024. Yes, it's the future. Happy New Year. Put down your jet powered rocket pants and your self-driving rollerblades because it's time for Shaun of the Shed.
Narration:
Shaun of the Shed, an AMI original podcast.
Shaun Preece:
Yes, this is the show where I talk about technology and just how useful it can be to us as blind or visually impaired people like me. Now, in today's episode, I want to talk about braille. Because did you know that January is National Braille Literacy Month? And also we've recently just had on January the 4th world Braille Day. Not every blind person or visually impaired person knows braille. I don't, I haven't a clue. It's not an ability that you suddenly gain when you lose your eyesight. It's something that you need to learn or you need to be taught. I never did. I always pushed it back. I always thought I had time to learn it, or in most cases, I'll be honest, that I didn't need it because we have so much technology now that talks back to you, smart speakers, screen readers on our smartphones, on our computers, on my television, on my streaming boxes, everything talks to me.
So do I really need to learn braille? Is it really that vital? Well, let's be honest, probably not as essential as it used to be. I mean, I can get by with my work. I can get by with everyday life using my smartphone or computers with a screen reader quite happily, but there are times when... I'm going to say it, life is just too noisy. It may be not appropriate to have your messages or emails read aloud in a crowded room, or it may just not be very comfortable to have something talking in your ear constantly. That may sound strange, but it's true. There's times where I just want to turn the tech off from talking.
I just want a bit of quiet and to be able to read something using braille. Well, that would be nice, but more than that, it could also be vital in certain use cases. For education, for example, a lot of research material, being able to not listen to every line but skim through just by feeling braille. For employment. For work like this where I'm recording and when I'm on the radio, if I want to read notes, I need to have a screen reader talking in my ear. And trying to listen to something and talk or listen to someone else at the same time, it's very difficult. Whereas just having some braille notes, which I can quickly refer to would be really nice.
So when it comes down to it, braille is something I regret not learning, and I think it's something that we should all have. It's a very useful ability, a useful skill, a useful tool to have in our toolkit. And if anyone says, "Oh, you've got enough vision right now, if you're visually impaired, or if your child is visually impaired and you think, "Oh, they probably won't need braille," I would say go for it. Try to learn braille as young as possible because it's something you really are going to miss if you don't learn it later on. And as I do regret not learning it, is it too late at 50 to learn braille? I don't know honestly. But is there an easier way? I am a lazy man. I'm always looking for that shortcut. Is there an easy way? Can technology help me to learn braille? Let's take a look at some of the top apps for teaching braille.
Okie-dokie then, so why I've done for this little experiment is I've simply asked Siri to search the app store for learn braille. Now, if you want to do it the long way round, you can open the app store app on your smartphone, find the search option and type in learn braille, but why bother. That's what voice assistants are there for, simply ask Siri to search App Store for learn braille. Now, when I did that, there were a few apps that came up in the search results, but the one at the very top, at least when I did it, is one called Braille Academy. Now, it's free to download. So I've downloaded it. Let's take a look and see what it can do.
So here we are in the app. Let's swipe on and see what's here. I'm simply going to swipe to the right with one finger.
Screen Reader:
Start button.
Shaun Preece:
Now, I think you can guess what the start button does. It starts the lesson. Let's swipe on.
Screen Reader:
Chapters button.
Shaun Preece:
Chapters. The way that Braille Academy works is by splitting the lessons into chapters. For example, the first one are the braille letters, A, B, and C. The second one, letters K, L and M, and so on. So you choose which lesson you want by double tapping on the chapters button. But let's swipe on.
Screen Reader:
Similar apps button.
Shaun Preece:
Similar apps. I'm the developer. I'm going to skip that. Swipe on.
Screen Reader:
Explore button.
Shaun Preece:
Explore, so this is just for reference really. If I double tap on here, I can type a letter or a number or a punctuation mark, and it will tell me what the brail dots are for that particular letter or whatever it may be. So it's more of a reference point, more of a practice. Handy though. Let's swipe on.
Screen Reader:
Certificates button.
Shaun Preece:
Certificates, okay, so once you do a chapter or a lesson, let's say once you practice your A, B, and C lesson enough and you feel confident, you can do a challenge, which is basically a test at the end, a quiz if you will. And if you get enough correct answers, you will get a certificate, a virtual certificate, but a certificate nonetheless. So that's what that is. Let's swipe on.
Screen Reader:
Settings button.
Shaun Preece:
Settings, in here you can change things such as the look of the app. Pretty pointless for me, right? But you can change the theme as they call it, and also you can turn on or off certain sound effects. Now, I'm going to leave it exactly at its default, so how it is when you will install it. I'm not going to change anything. I'm going to leave that alone. Let's test this out. I'm just going to go to the start button.
Screen Reader:
Start button.
Shaun Preece:
And let's double tap and start a lesson.
Screen Reader:
Start back button.
Shaun Preece:
Okay, back button. Let's swipe on.
Screen Reader:
Level one, heading.
Shaun Preece:
Good place to start, level one. Swipe on again.
Screen Reader:
One.
Shaun Preece:
One, so what it's saying here is what is braille dot one? What letter or punctuation or number, what letter is it? Let's swipe on.
Screen Reader:
A.
Shaun Preece:
Oh, A, that's the answer. Braille dot one is letter A. So why is it giving me the answer here? Well, the first time around, first time you do a lesson, it will give you the answers. So after about three or four questions, you will no longer get the answer. So that's how you learn basically, the next time around, you will have to give the answer yourself. Let's swipe on.
Screen Reader:
Tips button.
Shaun Preece:
Tips gives you little hints and tips. Swipe on.
Screen Reader:
Answer dimmed button.
Shaun Preece:
Answer, now, let's say I was totally stumped and stuck and didn't know the answer. I could double tap here and it would tell me. Let's swipe on.
Screen Reader:
Q.
Shaun Preece:
Q.
Screen Reader:
W.
Shaun Preece:
W, now, where we are now is on the keyboard to type the answer. Obviously we know what the answer is anyway, but if we didn't, this is where we would type it. Now, this is where I come across my first problem. The actual keyboard here isn't the usual default onscreen keyboard that you use on your smartphone, rather it's one that the developer has made. Now, there isn't necessarily a problem with that. As you heard, the keys on this keyboard are labeled.
Screen Reader:
E.
Shaun Preece:
If I keep swiping through...
Screen Reader:
R-T-Y.
Shaun Preece:
It's a standard query keyboard layout. The problem is I don't want to swipe through every letter every time it's tedious. So I just want to put my finger on the screen and move it around and find the letter that way. But when I try and do that... Well, I'll show you.
Screen Reader:
H, answer G.
Shaun Preece:
Moving my finger around there, and it's very unresponsive. It's not telling me every letter I pass by. Just every other letter or sometimes. For moving around the actual keyboard, I'll be honest with you, if you're a voiceover user, it's not great. It's usable, but slightly laborious. Anyway, let's type the answer. I know we know it already. I think it was B.
Screen Reader:
B.
Shaun Preece:
And double tap.
Screen Reader:
B.
Shaun Preece:
Okay, was that right or wrong? I have no idea. Now I'll go back up to the top of the screen.
Screen Reader:
1.
Shaun Preece:
1.
Screen Reader:
A.
Shaun Preece:
A, oh, I think that was wrong. I was getting ahead of myself. So let's go back up and find A on the keyboard.
Screen Reader:
A.
Shaun Preece:
There it is. Double tap.
Screen Reader:
A.
Shaun Preece:
Okay, I think we're good. Now, actually, when I typed B for that first question, I did get a vibration. So I think the vibration is what lets you know, ah, that's wrong. So let's go to the top of the screen now and see if the question has changed.
Screen Reader:
14.
Shaun Preece:
Yes, it has. Dots one and four. Okay, what braille letter is that?
Screen Reader:
C.
Shaun Preece:
C. Swipe on.
Screen Reader:
Tips button. Answer dimmed button Q.
Shaun Preece:
Let's find the letter C on this keyboard.
Screen Reader:
B, V, C,
Shaun Preece:
And double tap.
Screen Reader:
C.
Shaun Preece:
Okay, no vibrations, so I assume that's right. Back up to the top again. See what the next question is.
Screen Reader:
14, C.
Shaun Preece:
See again. Okay, well let me go back.
Screen Reader:
Back button. Braille Academy heading.
Shaun Preece:
And stop right there because I've got to say, the structure of it is actually pretty good. It's just the interface that's where I'm having a problem. Again, it is accessible, it's usable, but it's just not a great experience. It makes it a little bit harder than it needs to be. Now, to be fair to the developer, he has said that they are working on accessibility when it comes to voiceover and talkback users of this app, and they are looking for feedback from end users as well. So they are working on it, but this is something that's going to come up again and again on these apps, and that is the accessibility. It blows my mind that the accessibility isn't there from the start, but I suppose sighted people or low vision people want to learn braille as well, so maybe accessibility isn't always the first thing people think about, but for me, of course it is.
Anyway, that's Braille Academy. Let's move on to the next one, which is called Braille Decoded. Now that sounds promising. I've downloaded it. Let's check it out. Well, the first thing I noticed from here is that we are now in landscape mode, which means I need to turn the phone into landscape mode. But let's swipe through and see what's here.
Screen Reader:
Right button.
Shaun Preece:
Right, okay.
Screen Reader:
Spell button.
Shaun Preece:
Spell. Button. Just a button? That's a little bit worrying. Swipe on.
Screen Reader:
Chat room button.
Shaun Preece:
Oh, a chat room. Okay.
Screen Reader:
List button.
Shaun Preece:
List, now I'm assuming that's a list of all the braille dots and their equivalent symbol or letter of a number. Swipe on.
Screen Reader:
About button.
Shaun Preece:
And that's it. That's the last one. Okay, let's check out that list. See how useful that is.
Screen Reader:
List button.
Shaun Preece:
Double tap.
Screen Reader:
List back button.
Shaun Preece:
Okay, let's swipe through this screen.
Screen Reader:
Exclamation mark.
Shaun Preece:
Yes.
Screen Reader:
Hash symbol.
Shaun Preece:
Okay.
Screen Reader:
Apostrophe.
Shaun Preece:
Oh.
Screen Reader:
Star, comma, hyphen.
Shaun Preece:
Okay, not giving me a lot here. Let me just explore by moving my finger around the screen. See if that gives us anything else.
Screen Reader:
G.
Shaun Preece:
G, yeah, swipe.
Screen Reader:
H.
Shaun Preece:
Oh, what about if I double tap on H.
Screen Reader:
H, I?
Shaun Preece:
No, nothing. Okay, not a great start. Let's go back.
Screen Reader:
Back button, write button.
Shaun Preece:
So let's try that first one, which is write, as in write, something rather than left and right, I hope. Let's double tap.
Screen Reader:
Back button.
Shaun Preece:
Okay, let's swipe on, see what's on this bit.
Screen Reader:
List button.
Shaun Preece:
Oh, the list that doesn't work very well.
Screen Reader:
Clear button.
Shaun Preece:
Clear whatever we're going to type, I'm guessing.
Screen Reader:
Space button.
Shaun Preece:
Space Button.
Screen Reader:
Circle button.
Shaun Preece:
Oh, is that the braille dot circle?
Screen Reader:
Circle button.
Shaun Preece:
That's braille dot two.
Screen Reader:
Backspace button.
Shaun Preece:
Oh, wow. Delete button.
Screen Reader:
Circle button.
Shaun Preece:
That's braille dot three.
Screen Reader:
Circle button. Circle button.
Shaun Preece:
Okay, so in order to type something here, I need to firstly find the unlabeled braille dots. Circle button doesn't tell me anything, but let me swipe to the left.
Screen Reader:
Circle, circle, circle, backspace, circle, circle, space button.
Shaun Preece:
All right, so the first circle I'm going to assume is dot one.
Screen Reader:
Circle button.
Shaun Preece:
So let's double tap on here and see if it types the letter A.
Screen Reader:
Circle.
Shaun Preece:
Now where is it going to put that letter that swipe around see if we can find anywhere that says A?
Screen Reader:
Circle enter button A.
Shaun Preece:
Ah, there we go. At the bottom of the screen, A. I don't think we need to go any further with that. Again, an example of what accessibility for a braille up. Yeah, not great. Of course, again, we get back to the argument of well sighted people or people that can see the screen learning braille, absolutely, I get that, but I'm left out of this, no good. That isn't good at all. I'm sorry. I hope it improves, but right now that isn't going to work for me.
Let's move on to the next one. Now, this next app is one that was recommended to me from users of a social media platform. I'll say what it is, X Twitter, Twitter X, whatever you want to call it. I put the call-out asking for recommendations of braille teaching apps, and this is one that a lot of people recommended to me, and it's called PocketBraille. Now, if this is a paid app. I actually can't remember how much I paid for this one, but honestly it wasn't much at all. A couple of pounds, a couple of bucks. There is a free version called Pocket Braille Lite, which again, like Braille Academy, if you just want to learn the alphabet when it comes to braille, this will give you that option for free. If you want to learn numbers, punctuation, contractions, then this paid version is the one you need. Okay, so let's open it up and see what it does. Okay, so I've opened up Pocket Braille, we're in here now, let's swipe to the right pocket.
Screen Reader:
PocketBraille heading.
Shaun Preece:
Yes it is. Let's swipe on.
Screen Reader:
A dot one, B dots one and two.
Shaun Preece:
Oh, okay.
Screen Reader:
C, dots one and four. D dots one, four, and five.
Shaun Preece:
Do you get the gist of what this is? Yes, it's just lists. Actually, I would class this not as a braille learning app as such. It doesn't give you lessons and quizzes and practice. What it does give you is a very accessible list of the letters or the numbers or the punctuation and what the braille dots are. I would class this as a lookup app and there's nothing wrong with that. As I said, this one is very accessible. Now if I go to the bottom of the screen, let's go to the bottom left.
Screen Reader:
Tab bar selected, alphabet tab one of four.
Shaun Preece:
So that's where we currently are, a list of all the alphabet and their braille dots. Let's swipe onto the next tab.
Screen Reader:
Numbers tab two of four.
Shaun Preece:
Okay, numbers and again.
Screen Reader:
Punctuation. Tab three of four.
Shaun Preece:
Punctuation, and finally.
Screen Reader:
Contractions. Tab four of four.
Shaun Preece:
Tab four of four. So let's double tap on contractions. Now, if I go back up to the top of the screen.
Screen Reader:
B, but dots one and two. C, can dots one and four. D, do dots one, four and five.
Shaun Preece:
Again, it's just giving me a list that this time it's telling me what dots represent what contractions. Now it is a very simple app, but again, there is a place for this. It's very accessible, very easy to use, very quick to navigate. If you want to look up something, if you're just practicing trying to memorize the braille dots and what they represent, this could be all you need, what it is missing obviously is that lesson structure, is it really teaching you? It's just a list, but still I do like this.
I am going to keep this app on my phone just to look up when I get stuck. So that was PocketBraille. Again, that is a paid app. I can't annoyingly remember how much I paid for it. A couple of bucks, but there is a free version if you just want to start off learning the alphabet. It's not looking too good at the moment, right? PocketBraille so far is top of a heap, and I wouldn't say that's a braille learning app as such. More just of a lookup manual. There you go. Hopefully things are going to change. This is the last one I'm going to look at and it's called Bump Bump Braille Learn, nice name. I've downloaded it. Let's check it out.
Screen Reader:
Welcome to Bump Bump Braille. You are in the right place to learn braille.
Shaun Preece:
Good. Oh, okay. Let's swipe on.
Screen Reader:
Learn braille button.
Shaun Preece:
So far so good.
Screen Reader:
Braille alphabet sheet button.
Shaun Preece:
Oh, cool.
Screen Reader:
Take quiz button.
Shaun Preece:
Swipe on.
Screen Reader:
Take quiz button.
Shaun Preece:
Oh, that's it. So we've got three options there I think. Take quiz.
Screen Reader:
Braille alphabet sheet button.
Shaun Preece:
An alphabet sheet. I'm assuming that's just a lookup thing.
Screen Reader:
Learn braille button.
Shaun Preece:
And learn braille. Though, before we get into a lesson, let's try the alphabet sheet.
Screen Reader:
Braille alphabet sheet button.
Shaun Preece:
Let's double tap. Okay, let me swipe through here.
Screen Reader:
Cap A, pick item adjustable one of 49.
Shaun Preece:
Okay, is there 49 letters? Am I missing something? I don't think I'm at the top of the screen. So let me just start from the top.
Screen Reader:
Letter L, image. Letter L, image.
Shaun Preece:
Okay, I'm not sure what that is.
Screen Reader:
Cap A, pick item adjustable one of 49.
Shaun Preece:
And swipe on.
Screen Reader:
Cap A, pick item adjustable one of 49.
Shaun Preece:
Okay, so what I think's happening here is you pick a letter there, I can just swipe up or down, but it's an image at the top of the screen, so it's not actually telling me what the dot is. Let me just double check that. So if I swipe down now.
Screen Reader:
Cap A, one of 49. Cap A, one of 49.
Shaun Preece:
Okay, let me swipe up instead.
Screen Reader:
Cap B, two of 49.
Shaun Preece:
Now if I swipe to the left of that.
Screen Reader:
Letter B, image.
Shaun Preece:
Yes, it's given me the braille dots as an image. That doesn't help me at all. Disappointing. So let's take a lesson. Let's hope this improves.
Screen Reader:
Learn braille button.
Shaun Preece:
Double tap.
Screen Reader:
Select a lesson of your choice. If you don't know braille, start off with grade one lesson.
Shaun Preece:
Okay, good start.
Screen Reader:
Grade one braille lesson button.
Shaun Preece:
Let's just see what other options are here.
Screen Reader:
Basic mathematics, braille lesson button.
Shaun Preece:
Oh, maths, no, thanks.
Screen Reader:
Contractions lesson button.
Shaun Preece:
And swipe on.
Screen Reader:
1,200 times 628 RH, Radisson Hotels, [inaudible 00:20:36].
Shaun Preece:
And there seems to be some sort of advert at the bottom. If I swipe past that.
Screen Reader:
4388 Radisson Hotel, [inaudible 00:20:44]. Now start button. Button.
Shaun Preece:
Now, slightly disappointing. There's an advert at the end. Hey, but fine, it's a free app. Let's go back up to the top.
Screen Reader:
Grade one braille lesson button.
Shaun Preece:
Let's start a lesson. Double tap.
Screen Reader:
Grade [inaudible 00:21:00] braille cell contains two columns and three rows in each columns. A total of six cells feels like three vertical dots next to three more vertical dots, image.
Shaun Preece:
Well, that is a fantastic description of how braille is made up and how it feels. Again, there's an image on the screen, I'm assuming because it's old me, but let's swipe on.
Screen Reader:
Welcome to your lesson. This is the basics of braille, also called grade one braille shown above is what is called a full braille cell, which consists of dots one through six. Braille consists of six dots, which combined with particular dots create the braille language.
Shaun Preece:
Okay, I really like the descriptions here. I think it's very clear and I can understand it, so that's a good sign. Let's go to the next one.
Screen Reader:
Next, image displays the full braille cell with each number corresponding to its cell. Row one column one is dot one. Row two column one is dot two, row three column one is dot three, row one column two is dot four, row two column two is dot five, row three column two is dot six, image, 2534.
Shaun Preece:
Okay, so that at the end there where it said image 25, that's my phone trying to describe the image to me so I can kind of ignore that. But the actual description that the app gave me of that image itself was very good. Describing what dots one, two, three, four, five, six actually represent. I'm impressed so far. Let's swipe on.
Screen Reader:
This is how the braille cell is laid out. This helps you understand how to write braille on braille writers and braille displays as there is a specific layout braille displays and braille writers have, which we will explain next.
Shaun Preece:
Okay, I'm going to stop it there because it's quite wordy, right? But as you can see, that is actually giving a great description for someone who's starting just the journey of braille. I know, starting the journey of braille, that actually is very useful. Let's skip through much of this until we get to an actual quiz or a question if there is one.
Screen Reader:
This is the original previous, next button. Next, a braille display, ovarian design.
Shaun Preece:
Ah, I've just remembered the actual quizzes are back on the main screen. So this is just giving you the background, the description. I really like this though. So let's go back to the main screen.
Screen Reader:
A braille display, ovarian design. Select a lesson of your choice. Learn braille button. Braille alphabet sheet button. Take quiz button.
Shaun Preece:
Let's take a quiz. Okay, double tap.
Screen Reader:
Select a quiz of your choice. Text field. Take the basic alphabet quiz button.
Shaun Preece:
That's for me.
Screen Reader:
Home button. Which choice represents letter P?
Shaun Preece:
P, oh, oh, wow. I really am on test here. Okay.
Screen Reader:
Dots one, three, five, and six button.
Shaun Preece:
One, three, fives. I don't think it's that one. Let me swipe on.
Screen Reader:
Dots one, two, and three button.
Shaun Preece:
Don't think so. Swipe on.
Screen Reader:
Dots one and two button.
Shaun Preece:
I think that's B. That's swipe on
Screen Reader:
Dots one, two, three, and four button.
Shaun Preece:
I think that's the one. Let's see if there's any more. Let me just swipe on once more.
Screen Reader:
Dots one, two, three, and four button.
Shaun Preece:
No, that is the last one. So I think that is the answer. I'm going to double tap.
Screen Reader:
Dot one.
Shaun Preece:
Okay, I like it. I need sound effects. I'm very childish. I like that. Okay, so that was right. Let's see what the next one is.
Screen Reader:
Which choice represents letter K?
Shaun Preece:
Oh, I have no idea.
Screen Reader:
Dots one, two, and three button.
Shaun Preece:
Let's go with that and see what the wrong sound effect is.
Screen Reader:
Dots one, two, and three.
Shaun Preece:
Of course it is. Ah, okay. You know what? I think I've seen enough there. Let's close that down. Well, that was Bump Bump Braille Learn, and I've got to say, for me, that's the winner so far. I really liked the great descriptions of what braille is. The description of how the braille cell is made up, what the dots mean, the numbers, even what a braille display is. Look, if you are just starting to get into it, that's exactly what you need. And the braille quiz there, very easy. I mean, multiple choice. You knew exactly when you got something right or wrong. Yeah, I was impressed. So far, that is the winner, and I've got to say, I did try quite a few of these braille learning apps, and the thing that kept coming up again and again, and as I mentioned earlier, is accessibility. There are so many of these braille learning apps that are not accessible if you use a screen reader on your smartphone, and again, blows my mind.
Okay, but please give me access to these as well. Anyway, the winner is Bump Bump Braille Learn. PocketBraille, very handy as a lookup, as a reference, as a resource, but not really a braille teaching app. Braille Academy hopefully could do with some improvement and maybe worth another look if there's an update which improves accessibility and Braille Decoded, no, sorry, that needs... Yeah, let's leave that where it is. Anyway, there you go. There is a braille learning apps for you. Now I've got to say, what is the conclusion of this experiment? Well, I'll be brutally honest with you and say there isn't an app that is going to teach you braille, not efficiently, not effectively. Really, there is no shortcuts when it comes to learning braille. It is important and the best way to do it is in a class with others, or there are online courses available.
If you Google something like Hadley Institute or the [inaudible 00:27:16] Organization, then they have fantastic resources available to you, and the reason that it makes a difference is better because that sense of learning with someone and having that human support if you need it, if you get stuck, being able to ask people questions, whether it be through a webinar or some sort of meeting software or in person in a class, you cannot beat that and you will learn faster and be honest with you, you'll have more fun. So definitely if you want to start your journey with braille, if you do want to learn it and I would recommend it, I would say get in touch with your local site loss organization wherever you are, just Google site loss organization and your city name for example, and you should get some sort of link there that will point you in the right direction.
Organizations such as the CNIB in Canada or RNIB here in the UK are all fantastic resources. They will be able to put you in the right direction or in touch with the right people. It's the best way to do it. Technology is great, but sometimes you can't beat the old-fashioned ways. Anyway, thank you so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope it was helpful in some way. I will be back next time. If you liked what you saw, then hit that like button. If you want to see more, hit the subscribe button somewhere. Everyone says that. I don't know what it means, but hey, it's YouTube. Anyway, thank you people. I will see you next time. Take care.