[Isabelle]

I asked around on this one and there is agreement that this is one of the few cases in which this print material is not appropriate for braille. There is no way to describe the pictures without giving away the answer. I think your TN is excellent but in this case, unnecessary. The page can simply be omitted with a TN to say the the pictures cannot be shown in braille. You could braille the text that is there in print, but I would not include a description because the this exercise and its picture can't be done in braille. If possible you could notify the agency of this situation.

There is almost always a way to modify material for use in braille, but there are times, like this one, when it just isn't possible.

--Joanna

[Isabelle]

Thank you so much! I was not entirely happy with my transcription, knowing something was wrong, so I'm glad I've asked you about it!
Have a good day, Isabelle

[Isabelle]

Thank you for sending the page. It is very helpful. Those dots are not ditto signs and the ditto sign symbols should NOT be used in the braille. Those dots are ellipses. In foreign language punctuation ellipses are used for more things than is typical in English. In this case, even though the ellipses do indicate repetition of words, the ditto sign is not used because the ditto sign is not used in print either. See the NBA Interim Manual for Foreign Language Braille Transcribing Section 12e(3)(a) which says that a dash, hyphen or special print sign used to indicate repeition of an entire word in a vocabulary is represemted by a spaced braille dash. The ellipses are certainly a special print sign in this case. Use the dash instead.

--Joanna

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