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DESCRIPTION: The name "Perkins" carved in stone.
Below a Gothic tower, a boy navigates with a cane.
A title:
HASTY: Well, graphics provide so much information
for a sighted reader, and authors include them
intending to transfer messages about the character
or some of the details of the story or whatever.
They write the story with the intention, so it's important
that we also include things for the Braille reader to pick up
those intentions and that much information.
To reproduce pictures, photographs, is usually not
something that is going to be particularly meaningful
to a Braille reader, but to have some symbols of what the story
is about or what they're looking at is really important.
DESCRIPTION: A page of detailed ink drawings of various
plant leaves is shown.
The shot then dissolves into a page of embossed, raised line
tactile graphics of tree leaf shapes.
The leaves are also identified with Braille labels.
HASTY: When they get to school, they're going to find
that their text books are full of graphics that have
content in them, and they need the content in order
to understand the whole concept.
So it's really important we start really early
teaching kids to read graphics.
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