Thank you Alex,
I work in rehab, and I donate a lot of my time, and care a lot about empowering the Blind, and I don't like it when folks give us a bad wrap.
I too use a notetaker, and the only negative thing about them, is the fact that they come out with out-dated technology.
I hope that now makers of notetakers like HW, will use something like the Raspberry PI or Banana PI inside.
I have been planning on putting one of my Raspberry PIs inside an old notetaker with a Braille keyboard, and sending the keyboard entries through the GPIO pins.
Some folks have done this with joy-sticks, so it should work for a Braille keyboard.
I can expand the case and fit a battery inside, as well as a hard drive and WIFI dongle.
That is more likely a winter project though.
But if it works, I will be running Linux and Orca on it.
Glenn
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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 12:50:55 -0500
From: Alex Midence <
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Subject: Re: [orca-list] linux notetaker (was gui)
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You need to get your facts straight and you also need to do something about your condescending rhetoric. It is extremely off-putting and quite offensive. Note taker's are not dead. I use mine every day and know many others who do. I find it invaluable in
corporate meetings where I have to be able to listen and contribute but want to read over handouts and make notes. I use it in church to read before the congregation. I use it at night to read bedtime stories to my children. I also use it for learning new
skills as it has a braille display and can play daisy books. Some things are better assimilated via reading. And, yes, I got it from a government agency and no, I do not feel guilty because I have been a gainfully employed tax payer for about the last 20
years which means I helped pay for it. I am glad and profoundly greatful for the existence of organizations such as the ones you so blithely and disrespectfully refer to because of all the good they do for many man
y other people. A lot of the folks who work there are underpaid and overworked but still do what they do because they care enormously and believe greatly in empowering blind people in many ways besides technology. They should be recognized as a valuable
treasure for the blind community and lauded for all the good that they do instead of disparaged by people in the very communities they exist to serve. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Alex M
