Re: [orca-list] Braille WAS Re: A question for a traceback error message prewenting related

[Mallory van Achterberg <stommepoes stommepoes nl>]

Hm, I thought I heard C Hofsteder tweeting that Freedom Scientific
had really lowered prices recently (and that they'd been overpriced
to begin with).

Maybe check out if there are new prices today?

-Mallory

On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 05:19:47AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> I do programming on both mainframes and my personal linux systems at
> home and use speech for all of it.  I can't personally aford the
> extremely high prices for a braille display.  I can see how
> productivity would improve but I have to evaluate the payback.  I
> started out using an Optacon with a CRT lense to read the screen.
> then speech came along and performance improved significantly.  
>
> I think a big drop in braille dissplay prices could really prove to be
> a boom for blind programmers and proof readers.