VANCOUVER — Experts say fewer people with poor eyesight are learning to read braille in North America, partly because audio books and voice technology are supplanting the written word. The use of large print for students with low vision has also been a factor, she said, because they are only left with audio as their vision decreases and they haven’t learned braille. Teaching braille and learning to read large print was not always done together because audio was cheaper and easier to provide, she added. Most of us are not totally blind but braille tends to be more efficient than reading print,” he added. “These are folks who will have graduate level degrees and yet have very atrocious spelling and punctuation just because they haven’t read, they haven’t actually read.

Source: National Post June 01, 2019 19:30 UTC