doing something
i think i will, anyway... back in 2000 (or was it '99?), i took a braille class to become a certified braillist through the national library service for the blind and physically handicapped, under the library of congress. the class was fun, the rules were difficult, the braille-making machine was heavy.
at the end, we were required to transcribe 50 braille pages with no more than 10 errors total. i chose the jaunt by stephen king, it is one of my favorite short stories of his and if they ever make it into a movie, i will refuse to view it.
anyway, i had eleven errors and could not, for the life of me, nose any of them out in order to qualify for certification. lame, i know. i still have all 50 pages printed out in a folder with coffee stains and smudged ink (the computer software simply prints dots as if they were raised; i can read braille with my eyes, i don't need to use my fingers).
so, yesterday, i sent an email to the volunteer braillists and tapists, where i took the class almost 10 years ago, to see if they could give me more information about how their certification works now; apparently it's all done by correspondence, hopefully the electronic kind.