On 17 May 2011, at 17:40, Terri Pannett wrote: > Good heavens! Why would you want to turn off braille and listen with > earphones? The reason why I bought the BN was so I could use braille and > turn off speech! If your battery gets so low you are afraid to use braille, > then you should plug it in!
Well, goodness, imagine anybody turning speech off and running braille alone? Each to his own. Can't stand braille while reading long texts, especially unformatted text or busy web pages or in fact any text that is not of the most straightforward construction, using blank lines as paragraph separators and with no notions of headings besides a heading line or links beside a link indicator. The BrailleNote can't give you correspondent braille even with computer braille, so you'll never get a document's true layout anyhow, so you might as well have the translated output for already-formatted input. Also, the TTS changes, while unwelcome, are less unwelcome than trying to get sensible braille out of the Games or Chat applications, so while playing Games or chatting I often like to turn braille off entirely and not get any discomfort while constantly keeping hands on the keyboard. For leisure book reading where we assume there's nothing in it for you to have a precise account of the layout and/or spelling, too, it's nice to get snappy response from the keys by turning braille off. And it stands to reason that (unless you know something we don't, of course) you can't listen to audio using your fingers. It really depends on what you want to do, but if you find braille a distraction, you should be able to turn the thing off. On the other hand, I use my text-mode Linux box exclusively using braille. That's because the most information is conveyed this way, for any purpose, in computer braille. This includes attribute changes and indentations, cell for cell. Programming was never more enjoyable than when using braille. Cheers, Sabahattin ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. 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
