New member

[kiwijt]

Hello. I am a new member to the community and although I am not yet a Braille user / reader, I hope to be soon. I am currently setting up some equipment for Braille production and trying to learn Braille. I was wondering if anyone had some favorite sites either about Braille, learning Braille, Braille theory, or on Louis Braille himself. My

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[jyyne]

Welcome to the community. :) I'm currently taking the course to become a certified transcriber (in Canada), and am also visually impaired myself so although I use primarily large print, I also read braille tactually.

As for some good sites, www.brl.org has a ton of material for learning braille (you'll have to download braille fonts from the Duxbury site to see a lot of it), and www.duxburysystems.com has a lot of useful information on braille production, as does www.nbp.org.

Hope you enjoy the community!

[kiwijt]

Thanks! I have been thinking about taking a course myself. I am going to start with brl.org and then check out some courses in my area.

links for transcribers

[brailler]

www.techadapt.com. Be warned, buy the equipment after you have some experience. It's not an instant career!

Re: links for transcribers

[jyyne]

Hi brailler, this is really off-topic, but I'm just curious where you're from? I noticed in your user info you've got BC listed as an interest. Are you from BC? If so, I wonder if I know you (in "real life") ... heh.

Anyway, if you don't want to feel free not to answer, just curious. :)