So my building recently got bought out by another company and they are doing tons of remodeling and such. I went up to their office the other day and found this stupid:
LOL. I remember that one from going through the archives. I have noticed discrepancies too, like the sighted version of the sign on the toilet door reading "Ladies" and the Braille version reading "women", but nothing that bad.
They're likely intended to be dot-6, i.e. capital markers, not dot-3, i.e. apostrophes.
One of them would capitalize the next letter, two of them will capitalize the entire word. So it spells 'WOMEN'.
(Though I think their use is a bit superfluous in such signs - what difference does it make to a Braille user to know that the Roman-letter version is capitalized; adding the capital marks just takes up two more cells of space.)
They look more like dot 3 to me, as the distance between the second one and the W looks too long for it to be a dot 6, or I wouldn't have been confused.
The use of capital markers on short all-caps signs does strike me as a trifle superfluous too, even if it is technically correct. All-caps make it easier for the sighted to read short messages like signs, while the capital markers in Braille exist to add meaning.
actually it does say west. I'm not sure about the two dots at the beginning though. I know they mean something but it's been a while since I studied braille.
The fact that there are no raised dots does negate the whole thing though.
This probably makes me a horrible person, but I can't help but laugh at the thought of some poor blind person finding a sign next to some stairs saying "women" and trying to find the bathroom... (Yes, it won't happen with the paper sign, but if they replace it with a real one at some point...)
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I have noticed discrepancies too, like the sighted version of the sign on the toilet door reading "Ladies" and the Braille version reading "women", but nothing that bad.
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One of them would capitalize the next letter, two of them will capitalize the entire word. So it spells 'WOMEN'.
(Though I think their use is a bit superfluous in such signs - what difference does it make to a Braille user to know that the Roman-letter version is capitalized; adding the capital marks just takes up two more cells of space.)
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The use of capital markers on short all-caps signs does strike me as a trifle superfluous too, even if it is technically correct. All-caps make it easier for the sighted to read short messages like signs, while the capital markers in Braille exist to add meaning.
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The fact that there are no raised dots does negate the whole thing though.
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(Yes, it won't happen with the paper sign, but if they replace it with a real one at some point...)
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