The Braille Star is a refreshable Braille display made by Handytech GMBH in Germany. It has a "Braille" input keyboard, and an 18 key keypad. Screen readers can choose to make key assignments to any of these keys. The display itself is concave, meaning that your fingers are sort of in a tiny trench. It has excellent Braille quality, however its installation is annoying in that it is not a standard USB device. It's accompanying software creates a virtual com port, rather than being a straight USB connection. We have found that at worksites where the device is used, the flakey USB connection is not reliable, and we had to hook the display up as a serial device. The display (with 80 cells) costs about $11,000.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sarai Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 3:10 PM To: Braille Note Subject: [Braillenote] The Braille Star Hi: Has anyone heard of this? What exactly is it? Sarai D. Bucciarelli ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
