Do you put braille letters on the keyboard for students with visual impairments and additional disabilities?
For a student that is learning to use the computer keyboard for touch typing, “no” you do not want to put Braille on every key. Reading Braille by moving your index fingers over the Braille cells for information is not needed on the keyboard, in fact, it will slow your typing down. Braille reading is used to gather information not as tactual reference points on the keyboard. The standard keyboard has two tactual reference markers on the the J and F keys to orient your hands to the home row. The skill that is needed is touch typing not Braille reading. Accuracy and speed are the goals. When younger kids are using the computer, additional tactual markers may be used on the keyboard for special reasons. When this is done, the emphasis is on learning a functional or academic skill, and not keyboard proficiency.
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