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Coming up this time, Formatting Your Braille, a session recorded on Tuesday, 17th May 2022, moderated by Ben Mustill-Rose and introduced by Dave Williams.\nDave Williams:\tHello, good evening and a very warm welcome back to the Braillists Foundation and a very warm welcome to our Masterclass about formatting braille documents. How do you lay out a braille document to make it feel great? We'll be talking about how you centre your headings, how you style your paragraphs and what to do with footnotes, endnotes, page numbers and all that good stuff. So, everything and anything you ever wanted to know about how to format a braille document, that's what we're going to be covering this evening.\nOur guest this evening is Kawal. Kawal, hello, a very warm welcome in. I'm taking a bit of a run-up. I'm going to say, Kawal Gucukoglu. Have I got that right?\nKawal Gucukoglu:\tNear enough. It's Kawal Gucukoglu.\nDave Williams:\tThere we go. Easy for you to say. Welcome in. We really appreciate you joining us.\nNow, Kawal, you were for a number of years a professional braille transcriber. So, why don't you just tell us a little bit about what that entails?\nKawal Gucukoglu:\tYes, for 23 years I worked for the RNIB. I started in 1997 and left in 2020, and I'm still transcribing to this very day, when I get the chance and I get some work in.\nWhen I first started transcribing, I worked at Great Portland Street and there, I didn't have any braille experience, let me be truthful with you, and so I relied on my team to show me what I needed to do. Because we were using Cipher, I had to learn how to put the letter signs in, how to put the colons in. I was transcribing trustees meetings and letters and anything else that came along then.\nDave Williams:\tSo, let's just back up a little bit. So, you were already a lifelong braille reader and you learned transcription really on the job?\nKawal Gucukoglu:\tI did. I was born blind and I went to a special school called Linden Lodge School and first I went to Northwood and if you've listened to my podcast before, you would know that I started learning braille at three or four years old.\nDave Williams:\tWhat attracted you to transcription? Was that the job you originally applied for?\nKawal Gucukoglu:\tNo. That came along by accident. I went for an interview as a secretary at a place at the RNIB which is called Employment and Education Division. The person who interviewed me was my school teacher and he wanted to know everything that I'd done, because I hadn't had a job and I'd been looking for ten years then. Once I'd told him what I'd done, he thought that I would be getting this braille transcription job, although he never told me that. So, it was very much out of the blue. I got a call from the braille unit in Great Portland Street and they were looking for a braille transcriber, somebody who could read braille. So, I told them that I could read braille but I'd never done transcription before and they asked me if I would like to try it and I said yes. So, I went in on a Monday morning, met everybody and unknown to me, there were a few people in that team who knew me from college. They all knew that I could read braille and, so, they said that they'd be happy to try me on.\nI thought I'd be there for six months and I ended up being there for about ten years.\nDave Williams:\tFantastic. I know the technology has changed and we'll talk about some of the tools a little bit later, but what would you say are the skills that you need to become a successful braille transcriber? I imagine most of us on this session are braille readers, but I certainly wouldn't describe myself as a transcriber. It's a very specific skill set, right?\nKawal Gucukoglu:\tYes. 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