[gui-talk] Fwd: The Future of Braille to be Discussed on the next Edition of The Attitude Test

[Steve Pattison]

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the "Program Gallery" on the Global voice home page.  -Steve.

----------Original Message----------
 From:    Chrissie Cochrane chrissie at theglobalvoice.info

On the next Attitude Test, on Sunday 6 June at 18:00 UTC, 2 pm Eastern, 11
am Pacific, 7 pm in the UK and 8 pm in Central Europe on the Global Voice,
we'll be discussing the future of Braille.  In these days of computers,
Ipods and other ways to read books and general text, is Braille still
absolutely necessary?  why is it that in some schools for the blind it is
not taken particularly seriously?  Could it be said that a blind person who
doesn't know Braille is illiterate?  Isn't it a basic human rite to learn to
read and write?  How would sighted people feel if they suddenly had no pens
or pencils?  There are many aspects to this subject and Wally and I will
hope to touch on some of them.  To help us we'll have a special guest, Ivy
Temple who is a great advocate of the use and teaching of Braille.

We'll also take a quick look at the news, both major and trivial and have
our "Pet Peeves" spot.

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about it, then drop an email with an mp3 attachment (no longer than four
minutes) to attitude.test at theglobalvoice.info.

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Join in the debate on the future of Braille.

That's the Attitude Test, this time  discussing the future of Braille, every
Sunday at 18:00 UTC on the Global Voice, the most interactive station on the
internet.

Chrissie
Managing Director; the Global Voice
www.theglobalvoice.info

I'm also now on Twitter: chrissietgv

Regards Steve
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