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

[Josh K <joshknnd1982 gmail com>]

well since it runs free open source rasbian linux we could mod it to 
make it do whatever we wish.

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On 7/3/2015 6:58 PM, Al Sten-Clanton wrote:
> Does anybody know if the device will allow writing and editing in 
> Grade II Braille?  My inference from comments here is that it does 
> not. That might be understandable but would be something of a bummer, 
> since my wife wouldn't want a gismo without those abilities and I lean 
> a good deal that way myself.
>
> My wife and I love hardcopy Braille when we can get it. Refreshable 
> Braille devices certainly have made a lot more books available to us 
> than we could have had otherwise, though, and I liked very much 
> looking at code in Braille.
>
> Al
>
> On 07/03/2015 05:35 PM, kendell clark wrote:
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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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