Alright, been doing LOADS of thinking on this, and I KNOWWWW there are soo many things to consider and research about. So here is a short list of just a FEW things i'm currently looking into:
* GRIDS!
- The idea that a blind or partially blind person doesn't seen any, so in a way the grids would have to be invisible. So... has to be organized, but when printed... should not be there.
* HOW DO THEY READ?
- Now we all know of course they read through Braille.. but what I'm talking about it the technicalities of it actually. Whether they are more horizontally or vertically dependent/dominated.
According to my research, I've found that "One reads braille sequentially and horizontally from left to right... there is no vertical component..." Even though this was commented on musical notation, from what it seems I have searched, blind or partially blind people are horizontally dependent when reading.
* DO TEXTURES THROW THEM OFF?
- One of my plans in my calendar was to use textures, however... I still have to make sure the Braille is readable. So I have to make sure there is not a lot of action going on, on the page to make it difficult for the client to read the braille.
* IS BRAILLE ADAPTABLE TO DIFFERENT LANGUAGES?
- The answer to that is yes, "when Braille is adapted to languages which do not use the Latin alphabet, the blocks (braille blocks, bar of six dots) are generally assigned to the new alphabet according to how it is transliterated into the Latin alphabet, and the alphabetic order of the national script (and therefore the natural order of Latin Braille) is disregarded. Such is the case with Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Chinese. In Greek, for example, gamma is written as Latin g, despite the fact that it has the alphabetic position of c; Hebrew bet, the second letter of the alphabet and cognate with the Latin letter b, is sometimes pronounced 'b' and sometimes 'v', and is written b or v accordingly; Russian ts is written as c, which is the usual letter for "ts" in those Slavic languages that use the Latin alphabet; and Arabic f is written as f, despite being historically p, and occurring in that part of the Arabic alphabet (between historic o and q). Esperanto letters with circumflexes, c, g, h, j and s are written as those letters without circumflexes with a filled sixth dot."
* Colour?
- One thing I recently found was about how blind or partially blind people recognize colour.
"Some people with visual impairment are able to see some colours although others do not see any. It is important to learn about colours even if you cannot see them. It is important for them to learn what colours look nice together, what colours do not match, and about stripes, plaids and other patterns... It may be helpful for them to also understand that the sky is mostly blue and the grass is mostly green, and the colours of the ocean and the colour of the leaves in fall. Their imagination will help them paint pictures in their mind".
This is why I want to give my client the ability to experience some of the sensations we get to. Let them see and feel the seasons.
Hence... continues my research...
We'll see if I can pull it off
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