Learning Braille, Braille Display Prices and Cazerny Bussey's Even Though I'm Blind
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Learning Braille, Braille Display Prices and Cazerny Bussey's Even Though I'm Blind

B1IntermediateOctober 23, 202656 min

Why is learning braille as an adult still so hard, and why does a braille display cost more than a laptop? Steven Scott and Shaun Preece dig into braille access and pricing. Then they meet Cazerny Bussey, the musician and founder of Even Though I'm Blind. John in London wrote in about trying to learn braille as an adult. He found a box of course books he never opened, and braille displays he couldn't afford. Steven argues that mass adoption and patient learning have to go together. He points to Hadley, the Braillists and the Perkins Braille...

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Hey guys welcome along to Friday's Double Tap and today we're going to talk about music creation, not by AI. This is Double Tap where blind people talk tech. Here's Steven Scott and Sean Preece.

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Ooooh, is there such a thing Steven Scott? What? Human created stuff? Stuff.

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Music, yes, anything now, yeah absolutely. the robots taking over. Arguably, when it comes to music, I'm seeing a lot of blind people talking about using

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