@chunshek

Welcome! And yay, Dvorak! 🙂

Alas, I found learning it messed too much with my QUERTY and given various standardised key-commands needed in my then-workplace, I gave up on it.

I've had better success with learning keyboards that work entirely differently than two-hands, all fingers in: I love #brailling and am also pretty decent with the #TAP one-handed keyboard.

#chording
#chordedKeyboards
#braille

I won't lie, affixing the #Dymotape labels was tedious. I needed a sharp utility knife to get the backing off the adhesive side, and a pair of tweezers to hold the bare label firmly as I pulled the backing off the rest.

It all came off cleanly each time, but it required a lot more force to get the backing out of the depressions made by #brailling.

#accessibility
#labelling

30/x

The brailling went well. It was easy to setup the Dymo tape in my slate and also easy to braille on the plastic material.

It was a bit harder than brailling on paper, but not by much.

And I only goofed up on two words! 🙂

#Braille
#brailling
#Dymo
#labels

27/x

For example, #ContractedBraille would let me use the character "p" as a stand-alone that means "people."

Or a special character that means the entire word "the", "and", or "for."

There are many, many others! 🙂

#Braille
#brailling

21/x

Apologies if the word #transliteration isn't quite right to describe what I was doing.

It had been ages since I #brailled by hand (I've been practising on a classic #PerkinsBrailler but it can't manage Dymo tape, lol!)

So I wanted to make certain I had each character correct in advance of making the labels.

#Braille
#brailling

18/x

A brief caveat--despite having poor and declining vision that *does* interfere with my daily activities, I am NOT legally Blind nor am I considered Low Vision.

Presently, I have no Blind people close to me.

If I make any egregous errors in my claims about Braille, please feel free to correct me.

I am enthusastic about Braille but also very much a beginner in the art of #brailling!

#Blind
#LowVision
#VisuallyImpaired

14/x

The story doesn't end here, of course.

Because unlike #typesetters and other #designers who have a plethora of typefaces and sizes to choose from--including the choice to make them thin and such low-contrast as to be unreadable--Braille comes in just two sizes, and the bigger is only really used for labels on signage.

Here's an overview of the #specifications:

https://www.brailleauthority.org/size-and-spacing-braille-characters

#Braille
#brailling
#tactility
#readability

13/x

For my needs, using a Braille slate to make Braille labels worked just fine. 🙂

#BrailleSlate
#brailling

12/x

But I DO have a Braille slate. A few of them, in fact. And at least one of them is designed for this very problem!

Welcome to the awesome #design choice to include slots for labelling tape, allowing folks easy-access to Braille labels without specialised equipment.

#Braille
#BrailleSlate
#brailling
#labels
#accessibility

11/x