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

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Yeah, it's pretty handy for jotting down short notes and phone numbers and things like that but for doing an 
entire homework assignment, it's got to be pure murder!  

Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Chaltain [mailto:chaltain gmail com] 
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2015 7:11 AM
To: Alex Midence; B. Henry; orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] the low cost canute braille display

A slate and stylus is a lot more portable than a Perkins Brailler. Being able to use a slate and stylus is a 
good skill to have.

On 07/05/2015 10:21 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> 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
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> 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.
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