At the moment there is a lighting exhibition at Federation Square for people
who are blind. Amy and I stumbled upon it after a run a fortnight ago.
The aim of the exhibition is to create awareness for the visually impaired and to show how this innovation (cSigns) can be utilised on signs to make navigation easier for the blind. The exhibition included a number of quotes written in the LED braille with the word translation beside it:
My favourite was:
I took a pamphlet with the braille alphabet when I visited the exhibition with the aim to learn my name. This is how it is set out:
Coincidentally the other night I heard a discussion on the radio about how visually impaired children often listen to audio books in place of reading through braille, with the implication that illiteracy amongst the visually impaired might be increasing. I wonder how different life would be for me if I couldn't read, either through braille with my hands or written words with my sight. Would my perspective be dramatically different?
An interesting day in New June for me.
Basically, this guy found out that 90% of people who are blind can see
light so he used LED’s to write out the braille code. You can see the
entry to the exhibition in the photo below.
The aim of the exhibition is to create awareness for the visually impaired and to show how this innovation (cSigns) can be utilised on signs to make navigation easier for the blind. The exhibition included a number of quotes written in the LED braille with the word translation beside it:
My favourite was:
“It is only
with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible
to the eye. Said the Fox to the Little Prince.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I took a pamphlet with the braille alphabet when I visited the exhibition with the aim to learn my name. This is how it is set out:
Coincidentally the other night I heard a discussion on the radio about how visually impaired children often listen to audio books in place of reading through braille, with the implication that illiteracy amongst the visually impaired might be increasing. I wonder how different life would be for me if I couldn't read, either through braille with my hands or written words with my sight. Would my perspective be dramatically different?
An interesting day in New June for me.
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