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I now have this wonderfully purple T-shirt from the National Braille Press, which includes the letters NBP in "Braille," the dots without the texture. Which means that blind people can't read the T-shirt. Which naturally leads to ideas of how one would make a Braille T-shirt (stick-on jewels come to mind first, but that can't be the most elegant solution). And how most people are naturally b (especially women :-). Plus how odd it would be to have people read one's T-shirt by touch.
Other Braille thoughts: I wonder how (whether) they deal with all the different fonts in HP, like the handwriting ones. I'm so visually attuned that it's hard to think of reading without fonts, without italics, without boldface. There must be something, like HTML tags beginning and ending a section, but my brain is having a hard time wrapping around how I'd process that. Heck, I think I'd have a hard time reading Grade 1* Braille, because I don't spell as I read, I take in a word (or more) at a time, and I can't figure out how I'd do that by touch.
* In other words, ignoring all the other issues with abbreviations used in Grades 1.5 and 2**.
** Why isn't it Grades 2 and 3?
Other Braille thoughts: I wonder how (whether) they deal with all the different fonts in HP, like the handwriting ones. I'm so visually attuned that it's hard to think of reading without fonts, without italics, without boldface. There must be something, like HTML tags beginning and ending a section, but my brain is having a hard time wrapping around how I'd process that. Heck, I think I'd have a hard time reading Grade 1* Braille, because I don't spell as I read, I take in a word (or more) at a time, and I can't figure out how I'd do that by touch.
* In other words, ignoring all the other issues with abbreviations used in Grades 1.5 and 2**.
** Why isn't it Grades 2 and 3?