joyce shoemaker is legally blind. she's been losing her vision since the age of 12.he's never learnt braille and thanks to technology joyce shoemaker believes she'll never have to. >> reading braille, i think, for me personally, i don't have the time for the brain space. >> for close to 200 years the system of reading by touch has been the standard way for blind people to read and write. in the last decade braille has fallen out of favour. the national federation for the blind says fewer than 10% of blind people in america know braille. >> it's a pathway for literacy. it's reading and writing. think about raising a child. if they don't when they learn to read and write it's a problem. >> danielle millersh, director of the talking book library is working with parents to teach younger generations of the site impaired that they miss learning important skills like spelling when they rely on high-tech devices. the problem lies in not teaching kids. then you maybe have this whole generation that can't compose an email or read information in a database to do a job. >> so it

joyce shoemaker is blind. she has been progressively losing her vision since the age of 12, but has never learnt braille. thanks to technology joyce shoemaker believes she'll never have to. >> reading braille, i think, for me personally, i don't have the time for brain space, hoppsly. >> for -- honestly. >> for close to 200 years, the system of reading by touch is a standard way to learn to read and write. in the last decade it has fallen out of favour. fewer tan 10% of -- than 10% of 1.3 million blind center. >> it's a pathway for literacy, it's reading and writing. think about raising a child. if they don't learn to read and write, that's a problem. >> danielle millersh is working with school districts and parents to teach younger generations that they miss learning important skills like spelling when they rely on high-tech devices. >> the problem lies in not teaching kids. you maybe have a generation that can't compose an email or read information in a database to do a job. so it's a joys, but if you don't