Hi Kathy,
I can still read braille, but sometimes it slows things down a bit.
I did not know you had to take medical retirement.
Hope you are doing well!
Virgie Underwood
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From: "Kathy Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] question about speach.
Virgie, if I still had feeling in my fingertips I would most certainly use
Braille along with the speech so each could support the other in
delivering the information. The little bit of feedback I got from my
husband's braillenote 32 when setting it up with the wireless card was
really nice, but it took forever and a day to read the Braille and I'm
sure isn't good for the display. No...I don't read with my tongue although
it's a thought. The years I spent working with rehab included the
assignment to make state computer systems accessible to the blind division
employees. Until I got the speech access working with the state sofware, I
had to read with nose on screen hunched over my keyboard. Regretably this
caused nerve damage in neck and wrists and I had to take early medical
retirement, L.T.D. because I can no longer feel to distinguish much with
fingertips. I read Braille now by letting fingernail slide over and down
each dot kind of picking at it, then putting the image together
i
n my mind to form the character. Extremely unsatisfactory.
But if you can read Braille it is a wonderful thing to have a Braille
display on a notetaker be it 1 cell or 80. The feedback is just grand!
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