OK I looked at the easylink. As I understyand it, there is a braille keyboard for input which leaves us without a print oriented keyboard for the bus driver or anyone else to use to communicatye with Leslie. With a qwerty keyboard the letters are written on the keys and so anyone can communicate tho perhaps slowly. Some people find it very hard to use the ten key type alpha numeric input method 2= abc 3 = def and so on depending on how many times you hit it. For maximum communication you'd want both visual and braille output (and perhaps speech also)( and qwerty input would work for all.
> ----- Original Message ----- >From: Isaac Obie <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Braillenote List <[email protected] >Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 03:47:30 -0400 (EDT) >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] 2-Ways Communicator >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
