What does a braille textbook transcriber do?
A braille textbook transcriber is responsible for transcribing entire textbooks (and other educational materials, such as worksheets, tests, etc.) into braille or tactile graphics. To do this, he or she takes a publisher’s source file (an electronic file containing the text and some other formatting information) and convert it to braille electronically, using a conversion program. As with any electronic translation software package, the translations it produces need to be thoroughly edited, corrected, and compared to the original textbook page. If a publisher’s source file is not available, the transcriber must manually transcribe the text into braille. In addition, transcribers must review all the graphics in the textbook and decide if they are critical to the content and, if so, they must either describe them (by manually writing a braille description) or create a tactile graphic for each visual graphic in the textbook. The entire process is extremely detail-oriented and time-consumi
