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[–]major_lame 10.1k ポイント10.1k ポイント  (391子コメント)

This is most likely a temporary sign until the permanent one is made. These type of ADA signs can take a week or more to produce and often a temporary print, showing the braille will go up in its place until the permanent arrives.

Source: Work at Sign Shop.

[–]ripToTheEddard 5351 ポイント5352 ポイント  (202子コメント)

Damn you for your logical explanation

[–]NotTRYINGtobeLame 1647 ポイント1648 ポイント  (153子コメント)

I don't think the logical explanation makes it any less mildly interesting that they printed flat Braille.

[–]davidbenett 727 ポイント728 ポイント  (137子コメント)

it's because they would have printed from the same cad file that they'll use to manufacture the actual sign - this serves another purpose too because now the client can correct any potential errors.

[–]TheDisapprovingBrit 1172 ポイント1173 ポイント  (124子コメント)

"Hey Dave, can you check this sign in case there are any errors in the braille?"

runs finger over sign

"It's flat dude. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to be trying to read."

[–]konaya 303 ポイント304 ポイント  (117子コメント)

Anyone who played Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire definitely gained at least a passing familiarity with Braille – unless they cheated or just never completed that side arc, that is – so it shouldn't be that hard to find a sighted person who at least knows about Braille enough to have it looked at.

[–]watson-and-crick 204 ポイント205 ポイント  (15子コメント)

Hahahaha I just always googled it... I ain't committed enough

[–]whoopdedo 135 ポイント136 ポイント  (7子コメント)

So you're saying I should add "Completed Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire" to my resume? No wonder I wasn't getting callbacks if that's the skill set recruiters have been looking for all along.

[–]kevInquisition 316 ポイント317 ポイント  (6子コメント)

Nah dude you gotta say it more slick. It's "Sapphire Level Braille Certification from Game Freak Incorporated". List it low enough on your resume and no one will notice.

[–]tayterbrah 22 ポイント23 ポイント  (3子コメント)

You're a word wizard! I'll bet you have some original song lyrics you've written lying around eh?

[–]kevInquisition 16 ポイント17 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Haha thanks bud! I used to write raps a lot, one of which I made into a philosophy project in high school. It's pretty cringey in terms of video quality and how I looked back then but the lyrics are good.

The Philosophy Rap Battle

[–]drunknhobo 29 ポイント30 ポイント  (0子コメント)

This deserves more upvotes. Thank you, take mine!

[–]daltonwright4 42 ポイント43 ポイント  (15子コメント)

You actually learned braille from it? Impressive. I didn't have internet at that time so I remember having to get a notebook and draw the symbols one at a time once I figured out what they were. Times were different back then lol

[–]surprisebootsocks 40 ポイント41 ポイント  (9子コメント)

A game tries something like that now and I'll be like "dafuq is this, trying to make me write shit down on paper..? That's work!" goes to internet immediately

[–]Hikari-x 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (4子コメント)

There's this game I bought on steam that's an RPG that teaches you hiragana characters and it makes you write them down. I like it because it's probably the most useful way to remember and it's nostalgic

[–]nowayguy 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Good stuff, you actually learned braille from it! Have a moment ^

[–]dmpastuf 75 ポイント76 ポイント  (1子コメント)

"Sir the text looks great, and the emergency exit instructions are perfectly clear in text, however in brail it's saying something about taking your mom to bed"

[–]revo-vo-vo 79 ポイント80 ポイント  (1子コメント)

This sign has Braille that isn't raised.

(grabs the pitch fork)

Damn you for your logical explanation

(puts away the pitch fork)

I don't think the logical explanation makes it any less mildly interesting that they printed flat Braille.

(Reaches back for the pitch fork)

it's because they would have printed from the same cad file

(puts away the pitch fork)

[–]pixeldust6 85 ポイント86 ポイント  (0子コメント)

♪ You put your pitchfork in ----E
You take your pitchfork out Ǝ----
You put your pitchfork in ----E
And you shake it all about '' Ψ ,,

You do the pitchfork-pokey
And you turn yourself around
That's what it's all about! ♪

[–]Maccaisgod 59 ポイント60 ポイント  (26子コメント)

I want to be outraged damn it

[–]ahrmann 66 ポイント67 ポイント  (24子コメント)

I want to be outraged damn it

Said the entire internet since 2003.

[–]laanglr 22 ポイント23 ポイント  (17子コメント)

NO! NOT the ENTIRE internet! SHOW ME PROOF IF IT'S TRUE THEN!

[–]xxx_Jenna 20 ポイント21 ポイント  (16子コメント)

Internet has taught you well

[–]11thDimensionalRandy 18 ポイント19 ポイント  (14子コメント)

No the fuck it hasn't, asshat. Only a cuntheaded retard would think that. Suck my short, angry dick.

[–]Omgjenny 50 ポイント51 ポイント  (0子コメント)

But but ... already have the pitch forks out...

[–]TipperofCows 136 ポイント137 ポイント  (39子コメント)

I swear I am never going to get any use out of this pitchfork :(

Edit: Holy shit I think I broke the Cheer_up_bot!

[–]KBryan382 37 ポイント38 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Maybe you broke it, but I got to see 8 kittens, so it's a win in my book.

[–]Tkcat 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (0子コメント)

9 kittens, 10 if you count the blurry one in the background. I'm glad you said something because I assumed that they would all be the same picture. But no! All different!

[–]yukontodd 22 ポイント23 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Wow, you must feel bad about that. You should go look at a picture of a kitten, that should cheer you up!

[–]rebuked_nard 18 ポイント19 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Maybe Cheer_Up_Bot just thinks you're really sad. Buck up buddy, things are gonna get better

[–]PhillipMignon 17 ポイント18 ポイント  (0子コメント)

And now cheer up bot is Spamming you :(

[–]CodeConfused 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (2子コメント)

As somebody who rarely uses Reddit . . . this is confusing, Now I have to google this . . . I hope I don't die out there.

[–]RDCAIA 163 ポイント164 ポイント  (20子コメント)

Confirmed. Usually you can do these kinds of temporary signs to get a temporary Certificate of Occupancy. The temporary C of O has a time limit (30-90 days depending on jurisdiction)on it after which all the code-inspection loose ends need to be wrapped up.

The last thing any contractor wants to do is make the wrong permanent sign, and fail inspection because of it.

[–]demize95 57 ポイント58 ポイント  (17子コメント)

I worked security for the construction of a big fancy new hospital (over 1 billion square feet big), and that project hit substantial and got occupancy on time because the penalties for missing were... steep. Quarter of a million dollars a day steep. And if that was because of something like this? The contractor would be the one who paid those penalties in the end.

Edit: Million, not billion. Sounds a lot smaller, but it's still pretty big (I remember it being described as the largest hospital in the province, although I'm not sure if it's actually the largest in the province).

[–]Mr-Bueno 26 ポイント27 ポイント  (7子コメント)

1 billion? i don't believe you

[–]_High_Energy 13 ポイント14 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Well the largest building is 18 million so he probably meant million sqft.

[–]Carniequeue 17 ポイント18 ポイント  (4子コメント)

If it was built in a square it would be 35 miles from one end to the other lol

[–]alexanderpas 15 ポイント16 ポイント  (3子コメント)

No.

1 billion square feet is 35.87 square miles, or a square with sides of 5.989 miles from one end to the other.

Now, if the building had 10 floors, and the number was in reference to the total floor space, each floor would be 3.587 square miles, and the building would be 1.893 miles on the side.

[–]Carldabomb 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

A 2 mile wide and 10 story building is still pretty unbelievable

[–]blahehblah 18 ポイント19 ポイント  (4子コメント)

1 billion square feet is enormous, that can't be correct. Even if that building was 8 stories high, that would still be a square building of 1.2km in each direction.

[–]justjexxi 17 ポイント18 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Please leave with your logical nonsense.

[–]ClaudioRules 3807 ポイント3808 ポイント  (71子コメント)

You dumbasses, thats lower-case braille

[–]cobainbc15 490 ポイント491 ポイント  (10子コメント)

It's the thought that counts.

[–]TheTrueFlexKavana 201 ポイント202 ポイント  (7子コメント)

Worker at sign factory: "I think we should use raised lettering for the Braille."

Manager: "No, that thought doesn't count."

[–]Mclovin11859 37 ポイント38 ポイント  (4子コメント)

I know you're making a joke, but it actually is lowercase. There's a character for making following characters uppercase, and it isn't in there.

Also, it just says "stair" repeatedly with an incorrect, extra character starting all but the first word of each line.

[–]MadCatzPlayer2 5623 ポイント5624 ポイント  (268子コメント)

Easy. Blind people just need to have a non-blind person with them at all times. This way the non-blind person can read to them, "Bottom two dots, top dot, space, bottom two dots, top two dots, space, top dot, space, middle dot, top dot, space, all dots, middle dot, big space..."

[–]cobainbc15 2118 ポイント2119 ポイント  (184子コメント)

"Two on bottom, one on top. Then one of those snake-ish Tetris pieces, with the head of the snake on the bottom to the left. Then middle dot, top dot. Then you got another one of those Tetris pieces, hmm, what do I call it, it's looks like a T that's been kicked over?"

"For Christ's sake, Bill, I've never played Tetris. I'm blind!"

[–]UnidansHardCock 858 ポイント859 ポイント  (169子コメント)

Blind people don't need Braille. They need a cane, dark shades and a service dog who can read standard American English.

[–]iLickSourAnalFungus 266 ポイント267 ポイント  (155子コメント)

Blind people wearing shades is one of the greatest oxymorons.

[–]IAmTheAsteroid 456 ポイント457 ポイント  (116子コメント)

I've always assumed it's because they know it's unsettling if they're accidentally "staring" at someone for a long time. Or if they're looking over the shoulder of the person they're talking to. So the shades are more for others, than for themselves.

I could very well be wrong; I'm just speculating.

*I understand that there are medical conditions that make it uncomfortable for blind people to be in the light. I meant for anyone who doesn't suffer from such a thing but wears them anyway.

*Other reasons I've learned about tonight, that are more common than my original guess:
-Protecting the eyes from sun damage, due to a lack of squinting response
-Protecting the eyes from debris, due to a lack of flinching response

[–]MechaSandstar 272 ポイント273 ポイント  (30子コメント)

Or if their eyes are damaged. I was at a mcdonalds once and there was a guy with an empty eye socket. it was disturbing, and I would've appreciated an eye patch.

[–]rnoyfb 150 ポイント151 ポイント  (21子コメント)

So for others' comfort and not their own? 😜

[–]doubleapowpow 339 ポイント340 ポイント  (19子コメント)

Your emoji is discomforting, please put an eye patch on it.

[–]gooeymarshmallow 159 ポイント160 ポイント  (55子コメント)

Sometimes its cause your eyes just look weird going in different directions.

source: blind

edit: I will forever put the /s when I am sarcastic on reddit. Guys I am not blind.

[–]kushmaster9001 55 ポイント56 ポイント  (33子コメント)

just curious how a does a blind person use and enjoy something like reddit

[–]XxSynzxX 64 ポイント65 ポイント  (22子コメント)

Programs that read out loud to them

[–]wuyaa 30 ポイント31 ポイント  (5子コメント)

but how does op post gifs then

[–]XxSynzxX 30 ポイント31 ポイント  (2子コメント)

No idea, I just saw an AMA yesterday with a blind person and they said they had a program that read out loud to them

[–]minecraft_ece 27 ポイント28 ポイント  (5子コメント)

I am now imagining a synth voice calmly reading the swamps of dagobah or the jolly rancher story.

[–]homonomonohomo 18 ポイント19 ポイント  (0子コメント)

calmly

Blind people use screenreaders at speeds the rest of us could never understand.

[–]Lord_Cattington_IV 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (1子コメント)

"Have you ever heard the story of darth plageious..."

"Ah fuck not this again! And I have to sit trough the whole thing..."

[–]Eknoom 13 ポイント14 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Worked in a call centre around 10 years ago. Worked with a blind fellow ...he was a riot, always made jokes at his own expense (ie walking into the pub at the end of a work day and he would say quite loudly "looks pretty packed guys!". This is regardless of the actual number of patrons before some smart arse points out he was using echo location or some shit)

Anyways, he used a system to read the screens to him called JAWS (Job Assistance With Speech).

[–]mazhat 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Also braille readers! source: Have a blind family member

[–]timmie124 15 ポイント16 ポイント  (4子コメント)

braille display computers are a thing too, I had a guitar teacher that had one.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gezQdgcRg5k/maxresdefault.jpg

[–]TornUpAnus 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (2子コメント)

I want one of these. Not blind, but it would be cool as fuck and I wouldn't have to hide my internet search history, or worry about people know what I'm doing on my computer

[–]themightywagon 34 ポイント35 ポイント  (2子コメント)

/u/gooeymarshmallow can see why blind people would wear shades, but can she see why kids love the sweet taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

[–]MacAndShits 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (0子コメント)

My eyes look in different directions sometimes and I'm not even blind

[–]Skinnwork 16 ポイント17 ポイント  (0子コメント)

My cousin is blind. She wears them because people find her eyes unsettling ( they're milky and they never focus on anything (their default position is up and to the right, but they tend to flick around a lot)).

[–]slightly2spooked 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Some conditions make your eyes very sensitive to light.

[–]BitGladius 14 ポイント15 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Solid black shades do a really good job communicating their inability to see (or see usefully). I'd be willing to bet anything short of covering the eyes with glasses or similar will result in as quick or accurate identification of blind individuals.

[–]Racecar_Jones 33 ポイント34 ポイント  (18子コメント)

You can still get eye/cornea damage from the sun

Historically this is why pirates wore eyepatches

They could only protect one eye at a time, so when the non covered one became injured, they would use the patch for the more practical purpose of covering the injury on the other eye

Most pirates would not live long enough to injure both eyes due to the sun.

[–]pm_me_your_top_deck 58 ポイント59 ポイント  (7子コメント)

They actually wore the eyepatch to keep one eye dark adapted during the daytime. As you can imagine, it is very dark in some of the holds below deck, and it can be dangerous to be navigating those while sun blind.

I do this at night when I go pee. Left eye closed, bathroom light comes on, pee, light goes off, left eye open and I can still make my way to the bed without smashing my shins.

Here is a cool Mental Floss I googled up for you.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/52493/why-did-pirates-wear-eye-patches

[–]rainbowhangover 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (2子コメント)

You know, I've read that before but when I tested it myself at home it didn't do jack shit; I still couldn't see out of either eye and if anything the covered one actually was worse. Maybe I didn't do it right, but I don't think that theory is true.

.... still gonna test it again tonight, though. Just in case.

[–]LeafyQ 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (0子コメント)

It was tested on Mythbusters, and IIRC, they came up with 'plausible.'

[–]PixieDixs 37 ポイント38 ポイント  (4子コメント)

Actually we don't know why pirates wore eyepatches but the most likely theory is to have one eye adapted to the darkness of the lower deck at all times.

[–]Throwaway----Account 17 ポイント18 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I always thought the parrots they keep on their shoulders probably nipped them in the eye

[–]dontknowhowtoprogram 11 ポイント12 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yup and because the eye in blind people can still feel pain the eye will react the same way your eyes do if you stared into a bright light all day. Massive head aches stuff.

[–]spiritthehorse 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (2子コメント)

The real tragedy here is the dog is great at reading standard American English, but is utterly incapable of verbalizing it.

[–]FlyByPC 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (5子コメント)

standard American English

What's that?

[–]2068857539 17 ポイント18 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Its what poor people use, I think. The rest of us use Professional American English (it includes Publisher), and some places its cheaper to buy the Enterprise version.

[–]kevted5085 29 ポイント30 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Peter Griffin doing a magic show for a blind guy

Peter: Is...this your card?

Blind guy: I don't know

Peter: Is it a red card?

Blind guy: I don't know what red is

Peter: taaa-daa!

[–]TranslatesToBraille 122 ポイント123 ポイント  (27子コメント)

    . .   .  .     .  . .. ..    .  .   .    .  .  .   . .  .  .      . .  .   .     .  . ..     .    .  .   .  . .  .. 
   .. .. .  .     .  .  ..  .    ..    .     .  ..    .  .  .   .    .. ..    ..    .  .   .    ..    ..    .  .   .  . 
 . .        .     .        .           .        .        .  .        .        .        .  .  .  .     .        .        

[–]NuclearElevator 56 ポイント57 ポイント  (6子コメント)

⠠⠥⠎⠑⠀⠮⠀⠥⠝⠊⠉⠕⠙⠑⠀⠐⠡⠎⠲

[–]shady647 22 ポイント23 ポイント  (10子コメント)

I mean is a blind person really going to wander around and somehow notice there is a sign with ACTUAL Braille on it? How would they know to read it? If they need someone to guide them to the sign and show them where the Braille writing is, isn't it just easier to read them the sign?

[–]rethinkingat59 42 ポイント43 ポイント  (4子コメント)

All legally blind people are not completely blind. Some see shapes and forms, I knew a blind guy once in college that laughed as he told me his female roommates thought he was totally blind. (He was close to totally blind, so he didn't see much.)

They may see a big sign and look for Braille.

[–]adjoro 1692 ポイント1693 ポイント  (33子コメント)

Something is wrong here but I can't quite put my finger on it.

[–]Man-alive 19 ポイント20 ポイント  (7子コメント)

Seriously though:

I saw some braille on a sign in a restaurant the other day, just a small sign, a few inches high - it said "reserve for disabled users" or similar, in text and braille.
How do blind people know the sign is there and that it has braille on it?

I understand there are visually impaired people who may just be able to make out a sign.. But what about the more severe cases? Or are these not the target?

[–]sikkerhet 34 ポイント35 ポイント  (3子コメント)

service dogs are trained to lead them to wall signs and wall sign placements are very standardized so if the dog signals the blind person knows where to touch.

[–]Man-alive 13 ポイント14 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Wow, thank you. TIL something that has been bothering me for a while.

Have some bacon: 🥓

[–]Omnipotent_Goose 809 ポイント810 ポイント  (20子コメント)

That's Braille for deaf people.

[–]thingsthatshine 37 ポイント38 ポイント  (2子コメント)

No lie, deaf people are often handed Braille menus at restaurants. I've had this happen when I went out with my Deaf friends.

[–]slightly2spooked 17 ポイント18 ポイント  (1子コメント)

I find this hilarious because I'm partially sighted and I never get a braille menu.

[–]thingsthatshine 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I feel sorry for you.

It usually happens when we're signing, so maybe learn sign language (or tactile sign)?

[–]yuligan 606 ポイント607 ポイント  (29子コメント)

[–]TranslatesToBraille 291 ポイント292 ポイント  (21子コメント)

  /      / .. .  .  .. .. .. .. .   .  . .. .. 
 /  ..  /     ..    .  .   .  .  . .  .  ..  . 
/    . /     .     .  .  ..       .        .

[–]Senator__ClayDavis 161 ポイント162 ポイント  (6子コメント)

Damn just when you thought you've seen everything, a novelty account that translates to braille appears.

[–]trstne 34 ポイント35 ポイント  (8子コメント)

⠺⠓⠽ ⠺⠕⠥⠇⠙⠝⠄⠞ ⠽⠕⠥ ⠚⠥⠎⠞ ⠥⠎⠑ ⠥⠝⠊⠉⠕⠙⠑ ⠃⠗⠁⠊⠇⠇⠑ ⠉⠕⠝⠧⠑⠗⠎⠊⠕⠝⠦

[–]Mclovin11859 13 ポイント14 ポイント  (2子コメント)

why wouldn't you just use unicode braille conversion?

By the way, you need '⠠' in front of a word to capitalize the first letter.

[–]Psyman2 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I didn't understand that "why wouldn't you just use unicode braille conversion?" was the translation and looked it up myself.

Better go to sleep...

[–]ZaneHannanAU 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (1子コメント)

(Please) use the U+2800..U+28FF: Braille Patterns block next time, readable better across clients that use preformat-wrapping text style instead of preformat-overflow or preformat-scroll styles.

Also font support has reached the point that it's possible to use it everywhere except non-unicode terminal viewers/editors (looking at you, vim)

[–]TranslatesToBraille 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Thanks for the recommendation.

⠠⠹⠁⠝⠅⠎⠀⠿⠀⠮⠀⠗⠑⠉⠕⠍⠍⠢⠙⠁⠰⠝⠲⠀

I had started with Unicode Braille 5 years ago but found it was terrible on mobile devices/reddit apps.

⠠⠊⠀⠸⠓⠀⠌⠜⠞⠫⠀⠾⠀⠠⠥⠝⠊⠉⠕⠙⠑⠀⠠⠃⠗⠇⠀⠼⠑⠀⠽⠑⠜⠎⠀⠁⠛⠕⠀⠃⠀⠋⠨⠙⠀⠭⠀⠴⠀⠞⠻⠗⠊⠃⠇⠑⠀⠕⠝⠀⠍⠕⠃⠊⠇⠑⠀⠙⠑⠧⠊⠉⠑⠎⠸⠌⠗⠫⠙⠊⠞⠀⠁⠏⠏⠎⠲

[–]TonguePressedAtTeeth 149 ポイント150 ポイント  (12子コメント)

I've never understood how blind people are expected to find the sign in the first place.

Yes just blindly touch everything in the room.

[–]footyDude 114 ポイント115 ポイント  (5子コメント)

The overwhelming majority of blind people are not 100% blind, most can see a bit it's just often entirely out of focus / riddled with other issues.

In those instances they can often work out quite a bit about their environment and things like signs/etc. are often in pretty predictable places so it's not just randomly feeling around the room looking for signs to read for the majority of the blind.

[–]honkhonkbeepbeeep 39 ポイント40 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yep and ADA-compliant signs are within a certain distance from the door and at a certain height. And others are predicable as you said. Come to a door, find sign near door jamb usually.

[–]StressOverStrain 19 ポイント20 ポイント  (2子コメント)

This website shows how a legally blind person can still see quite a bit of information about their environment; it's just incredibly blurry.

[–]macphile 12 ポイント13 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Tommy Edison has an episode where he demonstrates how he finds door signs (or doesn't, when someone's put them somewhere stupid). In one of the scenes, he found a typo in the Braille, heh.

[–]Zingshidu 18 ポイント19 ポイント  (1子コメント)

I've always wondered how blind people know there's a sign there in the first place.

[–]agt20201 21 ポイント22 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Someone (/u/footyDude) said it earlier, but... most blind people are not the 100% pitch black blindness we normally think of. Instead of completely seeing nothing, they might just have severely out of focus vision, or a variety of other issues that make it really hard to work out the details of their surroundings.

[–]haramberevenge 18 ポイント19 ポイント  (4子コメント)

Have you ever read a Daredevil comic? The slight raise of the ink on top of the surface is enough for the highly tuned sense of touch of deaf people to interpret.

[–]Psyman2 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (0子コメント)

So you're saying we should douse blind people with radioactive substances?

brb!

[–]bluecluez1999 11 ポイント12 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Maybe it was just eroded by too many blind people..

[–]Trex252 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (4子コメント)

I always wondered how blind people were supposed to know where the signs were anyway

[–]AwfulAtLife 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Me while viewing this picture: that's not really an issue you can still see the Braille... Oh. Wait.

[–]TheSeltzer 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's Braille for the deaf

[–]snaplocket 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Your finger is glowing are you ET?