🌟 I went #Blind almost forty years ago. Within a year, I could read grade-2 braille at twenty words a minute. 📚 The only thing I had to read was an Agatha Christie novel – it took up three volumes, delivered in a ‘stinking old sack’ 🛍️ from what I remember.
🎧 I got talking books and never again read any sort of braille at twenty words a minute. Now, I can read the grade one on bleach bottles and tablet boxes… not much else. 🧴💊
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@Lottie did you consider using a braille device to interact with computers? I would imagine braille would be more attractive than a talking computer because it could provide cues around orientation that you would not really need with a book.

I guess elevator buttons are a typical spot where braille is the most practical.

@jschwart Nothing like that was ever offered to me. When I became aware of them in the early 1990s they cost about £10,000 and by then it just wasn’t worth it even though I could’ve had somebody else provide for for me. That’s tomorrow of the story it is useful but it has to be made to be useful!