Leslie,
Back when I was a rehab counselor, I was trying to get Telesensory to flip
their Braille Cell display optionally so that I could write on a Braillemate
while a deaf/blind client read along on the display cell facing me. In the
Braillemate the display was just one braille cell and it was above the keys. It
seems pretty simple to me now days to make a notetaker like a voicenote with a
clip on display that would connect like the gps module and have a few braille
cells for you to read if a sighted person or other blind person typed on the
keyboard, and a cell phone type screen display of the print text for a sighted
person to read as you typed responses to them. In this way you could use the
device face to fgace with anyone to communicate. This add-on display for a
voicenote qt would not have to be that expensive as it could have fewer braille
cells maybe than a regular notetaker like the old braillemate that only had one
cell even with a moving message rather than your moving finger. Th
e visual display in the display unit could be simply a cell phone type display
which technology is already available. I think you could use this very well in
many interactions.
