Have you ever come across a spelling error in print? If so what happened?

Edit: there are dowels that come with most manual braillers that allow you to erase by pressing dots back down. With digital braille files it's much like editing a word document.

I sometimes come across them in books published by the Centre for Equitable Library Access here in Canada. I ignore them and move on.

funny story: When I was first learning Braille in second grade, my E.A. was also learning it through a college course. She handed me a page of jokes and the first one said "ock ock." instead of "knock knock." we laugh about it to this day.

I immediately fainted from the shock, hit my head on a nearby table, and then crapped my pants.

Erm... what? Of course I have.

Spelling errors are surprisingly common. In the Braille production section at work, they have someone specific to proof-read the material. And mistakes can still slip through, especially when done on a computer with autocorrect (son versus sun).

Yes, often. I produce them myself with either a Perkins or a braille grid :).

Sometimes blind people have terrible spelling due to education, or perhaps rather said, lack thereof.

It used to be that people with visual impairments would just learn braille and go on with their life.

However, with the advancement of technology, and therefore the advancement of speech synthesis via technological means, many blind people now employ the use of speech dictation, for writing, and speech synthesis, for reading.

It is most evident in a blind person's lack of grammar or homonym confusion, such as "due" or "do".