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



I knew and very much envied some folks who could write with those things faster than a speeding bullet. I was functional, but several serious tries to get good with them still saw me lagging behind a drunk turtle.

Al

On 7/5/2015 11:21 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




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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