kATHY, GO TO: WWW.OPTELEC.COM AND LOOK UP THEIR EASYLINK AND TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK? lESLIE WANTS A TWO WAY COMMUNICATOR THAT IS ENTIRELY MOBILE! nO WIRES, NO DESK! THE bRAILLENATE REQUIRES A DESK! BUT LOOK UP EASYLINK! i BET WE COULD USE hUMANWARE'S BRAILLE DISPLAY WITH THE bnpk AND MAKE A WIRELESS TWO WAY COMMUNICATOR. i AM NOT 100% SURE ABOUT THIS THOUGH. iSAAC
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Kathy Williams wrote: > 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. > > ___ > 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 >
