Re: [orca-list] the low cost canute braille display

From: "B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>
To: kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>, orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] the low cost canute braille display
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 18:12:33 -0500

I'vew never had, or even had the chance to use an electronic braille device of any kind so I really hope this
or something similar gets to market soon.
I keep hoping someone will be selling their old braille display cheap/was offered one if a minor repair could
be done, but I never heard back as to
whether or not they could fix it.
E-braile would certainly be very helpful for a number of things, especially now that I'm trying to teach
myself html, more about bash scripting, and
other coputer related things like programming languages where syntax, punctuation and indention are important.
I know it's way OT, but I really hope more people will actively encourage the kids coming up now to learn
and practice braile. The electronic variety
is of course very useful in many situations, but paper braille can be a great thing in many others. Having a
note or two in hardcopy braille works when
environmental conditions make carrying electronics riskier than makes any sense. Braille labels can be a
God-send. Here in the state capital, downtown
now there are little braille plaques with the street names at about chest height on building corners. Sure
one might have a smartphone with gps aps, but
then again one might not have such a thing, nor the money to buy one. Not everywhere is correctly mapped
anyway, and sometimes the tech just does not
work quite right. Low tech can often be the best tech.
OK, enough of my preaching/just felt this important enough to go OT about for a few.

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B.H.
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kendell clark wrote:
Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 04:35:10PM -0500

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hi
I completely agree here. I was lucky to learn braille at a very early
age, I think I was two or three? I've gotten a little rusty over the
years because the last device I had that had a refreshable display was
an old braille note mPower, but it's long since gone to that parts
warehouse in the sky, I think I still have the motherboard around here
somewhere, sans braille display. If  someone can get their hands on
one orca support for it shouldn't be too difficult, assuming it
doesn't just work out of the box.
Thanks
Kendell clark


Alex Midence wrote:

Yeah, it's a bit of a stretch for just an eBook reader but,
totally doable if it's a refreshable braille display that you can
apply for general reading purposes i.e. screenreader output.  All
things considered, the idea that there is a refrehsable braille
device of any kind out there for such a low price and multiline to
boot is wonderful to me.  I have always been a proponent of braille
literacy and I find it immensely alarming how many blind people
can't read it because they don't find it practical to use in the
home or outside of academia because of bulky hardcopy or
inaccessibly expensive devices. Audio speech output is no
substitute for direct interaction with the text, imho.  Yeah, you
can speed things up such that you inhale data at 750 wpm but, what
are you gonna do when your kid wants you to read him a bedtime
story or your church wants you to read from the Bible or you want
to be a guest reader at your favorite book club.

Alex M



On 6/24/2015 5:36 PM, B. Henry wrote:

Well, there's enough processing power in the latest raspberryPI
to make it refresh fast enough if the code is right, and it's
fos, so someone should make it right if it is not. I think this
has a lot of potential, and now that the word is out hopefuly mor
ppl will start contributing to the project. I've never had any
e-braille device, but this is coming pretty close to being
something I'd find a way to afford assuming the code gets written
so that I can use it with screenreader output, i.e. not just as a
ebook reader.


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References:
- Re: [orca-list] the low cost canute braille display
  - From: Alex Midence
- Re: [orca-list] the low cost canute braille display
  - From: kendell clark

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