brailler

A Perkins Brailler machine, a sort of industrial looking machine with six levers, two buttons to either side of them, one big looking button in the middle and another thing that maybe moves the paper? It says PERKINS BRAILLER on the front and there's a small label that says it was designed by David Abraham, Howe Press and built in Watertown Mass.
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A Perkins Brailler machine, a sort of industrial looking machine with six levers, two buttons to either side of them, one big looking button in the middle and another thing that maybe moves the paper? It says PERKINS BRAILLER on the front and there's a small label that says it was designed by David Abraham, Howe Press and built in Watertown Mass.
There is a local book/record store that opened near me which is much hipper than anything that has been in town before. They have cool records, cool books, and they repair old stereos. They also have some neat ephemera and stuff on shelves. This is a Brailler, for writing in Braille.

I was into it because I grew up near Perkins School for the Blind in MA and we had a family friend who worked there and I'd go there and visit her sometimes. For a rural kid, growing up actually having met blind kids and having even a loose idea of what their lives were like was pretty interesting. I now refer people to Perkins' website whenever they have questions about alt text. It was fun to see this bad boy on the shelves, even if only as a curiosity.

Read more about the Brailler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

Perkins helps you with alt text: https://www.perkins.org/resource...

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