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Braille or Audiobook? (self.Blind)
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Heya All,
I'm a conceptual artist who is on the Autism spectrum and suffers from chronic pain.
I am creating a submission for a exhibition about books and would like my work to be accessible to people with visual (forgive me, I don't know if this is the correct word) impairments. I don't have anyone in my life who has this difference.
My first thought was to have a copy of the book in Braille, but then I read that fewer people are learning Braille. So then I thought about uploading the book onto an i-pod shuffle. My concern about that is that I won't be in the same state as the exhibit and worry that the gallery won't clean the headphones.
Do you have any suggestions, ideas, have I gotten any of this wrong?
I'm a conceptual artist who is on the Autism spectrum and suffers from chronic pain.
I am creating a submission for a exhibition about books and would like my work to be accessible to people with visual (forgive me, I don't know if this is the correct word) impairments. I don't have anyone in my life who has this difference.
My first thought was to have a copy of the book in Braille, but then I read that fewer people are learning Braille. So then I thought about uploading the book onto an i-pod shuffle. My concern about that is that I won't be in the same state as the exhibit and worry that the gallery won't clean the headphones.
Do you have any suggestions, ideas, have I gotten any of this wrong?
[deleted] [OP] 1 points 3y ago
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AutomaticChair9 1 points 3y ago
If you can provide digital text the user can choose how they want to interact with it. The text can be read by a text-to-speech reader or a screen reader or can be output as an mp3 file or can be converted to Braille. But it depends on how the exhibition is supposed to work - does the visitor need to experience the message in the space itself or is the experience something that can happen at any time and/or place?
BlueRock956 1 points 3y ago
If you have a word document, you can send it to people via social media, email, there is many ways of sharing that document.
retrolental_morose 1 points 3y ago
As a Blind person, I tend to carry headphones around with me.
Braille is bulky - a typical 300 page novel will be bound in 4-6 volumes of braille. Audio will be easier to manage and more accessible that's for sure: could you synchronise the text and audio, like on an iPad? Or does it have to be a "paper" book?
you could provide a braille download, so VI people with appropriate technology can "read" it at their leisure.
Braille is bulky - a typical 300 page novel will be bound in 4-6 volumes of braille. Audio will be easier to manage and more accessible that's for sure: could you synchronise the text and audio, like on an iPad? Or does it have to be a "paper" book?
you could provide a braille download, so VI people with appropriate technology can "read" it at their leisure.
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