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

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Jesus!   A slate and stylus?!  Are you kidding me?  I've never made it 
through an entire sentence with one of those damn things without a cramp 
and a few choice curses. Why can't they get Perkins Braillers?  OMG!  A 
slate and stylus!!

Alex M




On 7/3/2015 5:48 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> Good points/usage cases. Also the comprehention of data organization and formatting is different when one has 
> a physical display as opposed to having to
> imagine relative position of words and symbols. For math this difference can be night and day. Looking at 
> computer code being able to touch indention
> would save time and make for a much smoother mental work flow I think.
> It certainly seems like a no brainer to combine general purpose braille computer display functionality with 
> any stand alone braille e-book reader, and
> having stand alone e-book reading capability is actually pretty cool also for some of the situations you 
> bring up. That being said, being connected to a
> device with a visual display would have been nice when I read outloud to my daughter so that she could have 
> followed along looking at pictures and later
> print words.
> We used as many print braille books as we could find, mostly kids books from the National Braille Press. My 
> main complaint was that there were not more
> titles available...lol, but also it would have been nice to have more Spanish language content. A braille 
> e-book reading device would probably have
> helped with both issues.
> Of course none of this is a adequit substitution for hard copy braille or print braille when it comes to 
> those bedtime reading sessions, camping trips,
> etc., but compared with nothing...
> I have seen how blind young people  struggle here with their more advanced math courses in highschool and 
> college. It takes long enough for most non
> math wizz students to do their homework and prepare for exams, but when you add the time required to punch 
> out hardcopy braille versions of much of
> a tesxtbook with
> a slate and stylus there's not much time left for sleep, much less work or a social life.
> Braille literacy is very important for a few different reasons, and I'm very much in favour of anything that 
> helps bring braille, both paper and
> electronic, in to the lives of more people.
>