8 Keywords: Braille, Embosser, Blind, Visual Impairment, Duxbury, Perkins Brailler, Mountbatten, Tactile

This video (download 16MB) is of David with Gemma Towle from E4L Project discussing Braille.

"So do you use any other sort of assistive technologies to help you?"

"Braille."

"And how does that work?"

"I have the Perkins Brailler and I hand Braille a lot of notes if I need to."

"Do you find it quite time-consuming to do things like that?"

"Yes I do, it’s easier to have typed notes and scan them, or downloaded notes, than it is to sit and hand Braille everything."

"How do you use technologies in general to support your learning?"

"It’s my lifeline. If I didn’t have the computer at least I can fall back on Braille, but after that then I’m stuck really."

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"So what other technologies have you been using?

I've tried the Braille Lite, which is just like an electronic Brailler really."

"Have you looked at any other technologies about your learning that haven’t been introduced to you by lecturers?"

"Not really because I think that if you can keep things quite simple, like if you’ve got Braille or you’ve got a disc of all the stuff you need, why complicate your life even more? I have to be honest about that because I don’t like a complicated life."