Cheating from the "Blind"

[jjflash]

Okay, first of all let me say that I am not talking about "blind" as in the position at the table...this guy is really blind. Here is the thing...

One of our local bars holds a weekly poker tourney, it is a very small buy-in ($5 entry...so the money is not the issue), and out of boredom I play from time to time. One of the regulars is a blind kid who likes to play and therefore the bar provides a set of braille cards. The guy in question has someone else shuffle for him, but always insists on dealing the cards himself. I noticed that when it was his deal, he would burn the top card before the action was done and then rub his finger over the top corner of the next card. This seemed odd to me, so after the tourney was over, I felt the top of the card and I could feel the indintations from the braille dots. I raised this concern to the bar staff and word got back to the kid. He was obviously upset at being accused of cheating. We talked about it and he defended himself by saying that it was virtually impossible to do this. He says that because all of the braille "code" is so similar and because he would be reading it upside down and backwards, it would be very difficult to do. The obvious solution would be that when he deals, he doesn't burn the top card until all of the action is completed and we agreed upon this. My question is this; would it really be this hard to do and has anyone else ever encountered something like this?

Thanks in advance for any input.