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Do Hole punchers works for braille if they are used for cards with little info? (self.Blind)
submitted by Rucs3
Hello, recently I've meet for the first time a blind person in my hobbie (RPG). For playing online or using digital resources I suppose it's pretty easy to play while blind, pdfs can probably be read by text to audio apps, and dice rolling can be made using bots that write out the results in text.

However for a physical version, using a braille sheet could be handy. So I'm wondering, if instead of a single sheet, a small deck of cards could be used. Each card contains a small part of the sheet that can be checked if necessary. Since each card can be read separately, and have little info, would hole punchers work in this instance?

My intention is to help people accommodate blind players without much work. So If I made a deck of cards for a specific RPG system, people could use it as a guide even if they don’t know braille. The cards will come with all the info written out, and small marks indicating “punch hole here” to replicate the info in braille. That’s why I'm wondering if for cards (and not too much info) this would work, hole punchers are easier and cheaper to find, and if it was possible it would make easier, people wouldn’t need to learn braille or have an embosser at first, but eventually could develop interest learn it with time.
CloudyBeep 6 points 2y ago
I doubt your blind friend would find braille produced through hole-punching easy to read. If you want to learn braille, please use uebonline.org, and you can produce braille by using a slate and stylus, which is cheap (the National Federation of the Blind has the largest selection) and produces fairly good braille.
Rucs3 [OP] 2 points 2y ago
I see. I was thinking more about making it easier for the people in the hobbie who don't know braille to acommodate blind players without much initial time investment. But I was being dumb, since as others pointed out, if they use cards, there is no need to worry about writing backwards, the layman can just copy it with slate and stylus and the blind player will turn the card the right way when reading.
leitzankatan 3 points 2y ago
Something else to keep in mind is that even though you're now meeting in real life that doesn't mean blind players can't be using the same devices they would use online.
MostlyBlindGamer 1 points 2y ago
Yup, I'll absolutely be using my phone or even whip out the laptop when I can play at a table. Save the trees!
mantolwen 2 points 2y ago
To add to the above, there are tons of handy apps now that allow optical character recognition so you can just hold the phone camera up to the card and it will read out what it says. If secrecy is needed, the blind person could wear headphones while reading it.
Berenice101 2 points 2y ago
I don’t think hole punching is necessary, because they could still feel where the braille starts.
If the cards are backwards, they can just turn them the right way.
They would have to be familiar with braille in order to read them in the first place.
Rucs3 [OP] 2 points 2y ago
I hadn't thought of this, but it's pretty obvious, haha, indeed, the person wouldn't even need to write backwards or learn braile if they used such a guide to help their blind players.
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