Our contribution today was created by collaboration with Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) and the Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Mönchengladbach and Viersen (BSV MG).
In this nearly five-minute report, Anke Hoffmann introduces us to the Peters family. Trixie Peters, who is blind herself, gives us insight into different aspects of her daily life that are closely connected to Braille.
The video is in German, but of course, we at Braille 200 have also created a video description for you.
A heartfelt thank you to the Peters family for bringing this video to our attention!
Videodescribtion
The video is part of a regional TV programme for local news from Düsseldorf, Germany. It gives insights into the role of braille in the daily live of the family of Trixie and Stefan Peters and their two children. Trixie Peters is fully blind whereas Stefan Peters got 2% vision left. The opening scenes show Trixie preparing a curry dish in her neatly organized kitchen. She uses braille to mark and choose the spices that she needs for cooking. While cutting canned pineapple she goes on explaining that as someone who has been blind since she was 14 years old, she does not really notice the additional challenges her blindness puts on organizing her daily tasks. Her husband can use his remaining vision to fill the gaps if need be. He doesn’t use braille himself but does describe the challenges of having to strain his eyes much at his job as real estate agent. At the dinner table Trixie talks about how it was nothing out of the ordinary and rather fun to her having to learn braille when she was a teenager since her mother is blind too. The video then briefly explains how braille was invented 200 years ago by Louis Braille when he came across a military communications system that used dice as code. This short explanation is accompanied by pictures of old dice and a statue of Louis Braille. The next scene shows Trixie walking outside with her older daughter, who is three years old, and her guide dog. She uses braille when crossing streets at traffic lights. Later on, she sits in front of her computer using her braille display and voice over as she prepares her classes as a teacher for braille. The last shot shows the family sitting together on the sofa in their living room. Trixie reads a colourful children’s book to her oldest child. She added braille text to the pages to make the book accessible. Trixie has long and slightly curled dark hair kept out of her face by a white headband. She wears a light green and beige striped pullover and blue jeans. Stefan has short white hair and wears a grey pullover.
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