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Short on vision

By Peter Bosher

6 May 2000

I DON’T usually read Âé¶¹´«Ã½. Nothing so strange about that, you might
think, but neither do I read any other magazines or newspapers.

For the first three-quarters of my life (I’m 40) I didn’t have the choice: I
couldn’t read Âé¶¹´«Ã½ or any other publication because they weren’t in
Braille.

Braille is a terrific system, but only a tiny fraction of printed material is
transcribed into it. In any case, only 10 000 of the nearly two million blind
and partially sighted people in Britain read Braille. Like them, I grew up
without the magazine habit.

So not…

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