{"id":12307,"date":"2023-11-19T14:37:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T13:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/19\/magic-touch-how-revolutionary-changes-are-making-braille-better-than-ever\/"},"modified":"2023-11-19T14:37:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T13:37:42","slug":"magic-touch-how-revolutionary-changes-are-making-braille-better-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/19\/magic-touch-how-revolutionary-changes-are-making-braille-better-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic touch: how \u2018revolutionary\u2019 changes are making braille better than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Braille is nearly two centuries old, but, rather than being supplanted by new technology, advocates say the script is having a new lease on life<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Blind from birth, Graeme Innes can\u2019t remember the last time he sat down to read a book in braille. Instead, he listens to audiobooks.<em> <\/em>Yet Innes, who is Australia\u2019s former disability discrimination commissioner, and Vision Australia\u2019s first chair, still uses braille every day.<\/p>\n<p>To seeing eyes, braille reads like an indecipherable morse code. Invented by Louis Braille in 1824, the 64 character script, made up of a matrix of six dots, was developed as a means of efficient communication for blind people. By the 2000s, however, the advance of technology led many to believe that braille would become redundant; teaching braille declined and many vision-impaired young people did not learn it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2023\/nov\/20\/magic-touch-how-revolutionary-changes-are-making-braille-better-than-ever\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/dedfbf1233458f56dfed2f2cfc094ce487ac6f1b\/1_0_5284_3172\/master\/5284.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a3ead67397e22356b44dc2340359aa71\" title=\"Magic touch: how \u2018revolutionary\u2019 changes are making braille better than ever\" \/>Braille is nearly two centuries old, but, rather than being supplanted by new technology, advocates say the script is having a new lease on life<br \/>\nGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>Blind from birth, Graeme Innes can\u2019t remember the last time he sat down to read a book in braille. Instead, he listens to audiobooks. Yet Innes, who is Australia\u2019s former disability discrimination commissioner, and Vision Australia\u2019s first chair, still uses braille every day.<br \/>\nTo seeing eyes, braille reads like an indecipherable morse code. Invented by Louis Braille in 1824, the 64 character script, made up of a matrix of six dots, was developed as a means of efficient communication for blind people. By the 2000s, however, the advance of technology led many to believe that braille would become redundant; teaching braille declined and many vision-impaired young people did not learn it. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Braille is nearly two centuries old, but, rather than being supplanted by new technology, advocates say the script is having a new lease on life Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Blind from birth, Graeme Innes can\u2019t remember the last time he sat down to read a book &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/19\/magic-touch-how-revolutionary-changes-are-making-braille-better-than-ever\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Magic touch: how \u2018revolutionary\u2019 changes are making braille better than ever<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12307"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}