Programming books in Braille are next to impossible to find. If you want to learn you must have the book translated into Braille.

Even so, how many of you would bother to learn something if you couldn't see it? Think Braille is easy to learn? Try it. It isn't. It too is close to a programming language of sorts.

Manners go a long way. If you have comment to make regarding something that could be done differently, share that without attempting to humiliate or degrade.

Here's something that says it all ...

A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste
By Ambrose E. Brazelton
(1982 ACLD Conference, Chicago)

In the Phi Delta Kappan of Feb. '73
Are some glossed over facts of modern history.
It speaks of several persons of fortune and fame.
Who were initially indicted as hopelessly plain.
The first name of prominence bombarding my mind,
Is the relativity genius, Albert Einstein.
Was four years old before he spoke,
Didn't read til seven (and that's no joke).
The Lord was the first to say, "Let there be light."
But Thomas A. Edison was outta sight.
Tis odd that his products continue to burn,
Though his teacher lamented "He's too stupid to learn".
T'was shocking to read that the great Fred Waring,
Was denied the privilege of musical sharing
By a high school director who prejudged this lad
As noteless, throatless, hopeless and sad.
Winston Churchill, God rest his soul;
A statesman of honor; courageous and bold.
We know of his virtue, the history he made,
But didya know that this leader failed the 6th grade?
A newpaper editor was quick to fire
A young man whose talents he could not admire,
"Not one good idea is his primary fault,
Void of potential is this Disney named Walt. " "Dear teacher, wake up! What is your gripe?
Who empowered you to stereotype?
I'm labeled disabled, unstable, unfit,
I'm graded, berated, persuaded to quit!"
"Your system discourages, renders me numb!
What right have you to consider me dumb?
When concepts confuse me and I can't dig it,
Your attitude tags you a Social Bigot!"
Wake up! Perceive! Too long have we dozed!
TEACHER BEHAVIOR humanely imposed
Must be flaunted with zeal and deliberate haste,
Cause the mind is a terrible thing to waste!

I always try my best to get along with others....

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That is a beautiful poem you have shared! I love it.

I have a friend who does sign language for a job, and he was telling me the other day of how you cannot teach deaf children to read! I felt somewhat ashamed to have been so naive, but I'd never thought of that before, though I am not ashamed to admit it. I am starting to wonder how they can learn to read and speak at all, because apparently they can to a basic level! Maybe we learn HOW through the lips? I am not sure, but I am curious to know more.

Thank you for bringing something with a bit more substance to TalkPHP It always good to engage the mind in such ways!

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The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out.

What a small world. I have a friend that interprets for a living...

Actually there are programs now (on computer) that can teach anyone to read. My little boy couldn't even speak yet, and he was only 15 months old when he was first on the computer.

He learned to read at that young age thanks to a Dr. Seuss program. He never spoke his first word until he was almost 3. Oddly enough, his first word wasn't "Mama" ... noooo ... it was "car!"

Then it was "cop car!"
Grandma worked at the police department

I have a cousin that's totally blind and has been since birth. They removed his eyes due to infection when he was first born. He went to college and earned a degree and he works in Mercy Hospital in Detroit as an X-ray Technologist.

People are capable of more than even they know. Sometimes all it takes it for someone else to show you the right way, to lead you to "how", and do so without the condescending tone.

No one with a difficulty such as blindness, or motor skill disorder, likes to be treated in a manner as though they are somehow less because they haven't reached the plateau of knowledge that you have (this is a generic all encompassing you -- not a specific YOU).

Myself, I have progressive high (degenerative) myopia which I was born with. I am able to see in distance only about 2 ft away and even that is a blur of colors without edges to define shapes and surrounded by several thick fuzzy lines.

I didn't let vision hold me back. I wanted to be a Teacher, and I was. Then I retired from that and wanted to learn programming. And I have. Everything I know thus far about web design, web accessibility, and programming, I have taught myself.

I may not be the best at something, nor maybe not the most creative, nor even the most brilliant at a craft. I am however, not a hack and I can certainly hold my own and have done so for many years now.

As far as web accessibility goes, I am considered a pro in that area. It's my main passion.