There are currently 47 members of our group from 8 different countries. We have members from Brazil, United Kingdom, Costa Rica, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Iceland and the United States. This is where we gather to learn Braille transcription under the leadership of Tompye. It's his intent to make this opportunity available to others in today's virtual community. Tompye has been certified by the Library of Congress as a Braille transcriber since 1965.
Students take the FREE home-study Braille transcription course in their own homes, on their PC's.
Upon completion of the course, they are awarded a Diploma from Touch the World Braille Transcribers. Technical support is also available for the installation and setup of the software should the student need it. The student then works from the lesson book typing the drills andexercises on their PC using the provided software. Drills and exercises are produced on the students monitor in simulated Braille then saved and e-mailed or dcc'd to Tompye in the IRC channel for correction. Each drill or exercise is then checked for errors and a detailed report, with comments, is then e-mailed back to the student.