On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Sam Kuper <sam.ku...@uclmail.net> wrote: > 2009/3/31 Crane, Matthew <mcran...@harris.com> >> >> Seems to me OM would be a good platform to quickly implement something >> like this on a working phone. >> >> http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127015.700-vibrating-touch-scree >> n-puts-braille-at-the-fingertips.html > > That's a really nice start to making touchscreen devices friendlier for > blind users. It'd be great for this to be ported to OpenMoko!
One of the more obvious problems, and it shows in the article, is that Braille is 2 dimensional, and the pulses are only one-dimensional. Perhaps having an interface with morse code could help here. Ofcourse, you can do both the '1-dimensional braille' and morse and let the user select. But 1 character in 1.25 seconds sounds like a long time! Morse is (can be) much quicker than that. Christ van Willegen -- 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community