“You get to a point in your career, and if you can’t write notes in braille, and interact with those notes while fully participating in meetings … you just can’t keep progressing,” Innes says. While technology is an aid, he says, recognition of the importance of braille for literacy is taking hold. Innes says the device has been “revolutionary” since becoming mainstream in the mid-2000s. But I also always carry a braille watch because I don’t want the watch speaking to me, in certain circumstances, such as when I’m asleep.” Displaying the script by raising round-tipped pins up and down on a flat surface, a braille display is about the size of an iPad mini but a bit thicker.
“I have an Apple Watch – now, that speaks to me. “Everything I do is based on braille,” Innes says.
