How the Maya thought about the ancient ruins in their midst, and the science of Braille
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The Importance of Braille in Literacy
I don't think anyone seriously has said we should replace print with completely with audio books and text to speech. Braille is still very widely used and very important, and will continue to be just as long as print is not obsolete for cited people. I would say screen readers and audio books are fantastic tools for accessing information but they can't replace direct access to literacy in the same way that print does. At least 150 of the world's images have Braille systems so you can represent many many languages in Braille.
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