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a bell seems to be ringing in my brain… wasn’t there a politician who claimed he only hired the prostitutes to read him reports and business documents? as i remember he did not have a visual or reading disability.
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You may be thinking of Wayne Hays, who resigned from the House of Representatives after news broke that he’d hired a secretary who couldn’t type, file or answer the phone.
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He will be the third black Governor in US history and the first legally blind Governor if I recall what I heard correctly.
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Interestingly, not the first legally blind Governor:
From here.
GD thread here.
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i can understand given modern tech. and computers that braille is going by the wayside. i would imagine that it would be mostly those who have sight and hearing problems that would most use braille.
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Or someone who wants to learn braille…
I worked for a time with a man who was completely blind. He was “fluent” in grade II braille (has more than just 26 “letters”, utilizing dot patterns for common words like “the” and “and”, parts of words like “ing”, and stuff like that from what I gather - me, I don’t know any level of braille) and had an input device for his computer which he used to type braille characters. However, he utilized text-to-voice software for a lot of his reading, books on tape, and so on. And a certain amount of stuff I read into a microphone and recorded for him. That was, oh, nearly 20 years ago, I’m sure the technology is even more advanced today. He said he was moving more and more to audio recordings and software because it took so long to get stuff “translated” from visual text to braille, but a lot of audio stuff was already out there (like books on tape). He was skilled enough to be comfortable with either braille or audio, but that had a lot to do with his choice to use braille rather than relying mostly on a different media.
Maybe you’re thinking of Congressman Charlie Wilson and “You can teach 'em to type, but you can’t teach 'em to grow tits”.