S4E33 - Season 3 Episode 33 - How does vision impairment affect teaching translation and intepretation?

But even the Bible, like we were talking last week, I was talking to another couple of friends.

We were talking about the fact that Johannes Kuttenberg actually printed, you know, created the movable printing press in 1440, I think it was.

early 14 mid 1400s but people still couldn't access the information because it was in latin and yes we're talking again it's it's the tools are there but it's how you use the tools it's the same thing again isn't it

yes that's right

yeah And it's the same with the Bible.

I mean, the Bible was 1400s, was printed in Latin.

A guy called William Tyndale in the 1520s

actually

translated into English.

That's

right.

Now we're looking again at your translating into Teuton to give access for people in their own language.

That's right.

And this is becoming, we've got a great team, but the programs I use for Bible translation are not accessible.

It's really sad.

Nor is the program that I use for dictionary writing.

So that's three programs that I would normally use a lot.

None of them are properly accessible or they all have extremely limited accessibility.

How do they work?

For dictionary writing, I get someone to do data entry and then they have to read it to me.

But realistically, the information that goes into a dictionary entry can have Teuton, English, Portuguese and Indonesian all mixed in in one sentence.

So a screen reader would not do that anyway.

I'd better explain East Timor was a Portuguese colony for many years, several centuries, and was under Indonesian occupation for 24 years and then became independent.

So that's why it's that combination of languages.

So I have to get a human reader and I've only just started doing that a few weeks ago.