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Yes to both, but unfortunately the cost in time, money and related skills is prohibitively high: - The diagrams would need to be re-traced and any printed labe
by jscholes 9y ago
Yes to both, but unfortunately the cost in time, money and related skills is prohibitively high:
- The diagrams would need to be re-traced and any printed labels replaced with braille ones.
- As braille characters can often take up more space, the labels might need to be shortened, meaning that a separate diagram key would need to be prepared.
- These are technical diagrams, so if you redraw them at the same scale they appear in the book they might not necessarily be understandable in a tactile form.
In terms of money, if you can get away with using A4 paper, the particular type you would need costs £0.38 per sheet. If you need to use A3, it's £0.77 per sheet. Many commercial transcription services, when you take into account the labour costs of adapting the diagram, will charge £70 plus per image, and £3-5 for additional copies if you need them. There are free transcription services provided by charities, but the staff are not experts in preparing technical diagram material and the turnover time can be six months or more.
TL;DR - it's not worth it. Producing one tactile figure would cost twice the cost of the book. I don't know how many figures there are in total.