Bummer about the 12" screen, as a larger display for your existing setup that sounded like it'd be perfect -- but i can see the cheating issue of other students reading your nice big calculator display!
In terms of companies NOT REALIZING how important it is to have accessibility, it is unfortunate that it seems to fall onto your own shoulders to convince them. I'm not in the know on this subject, but aren't there organizations to help bring serious attention to these matters (even legal attention if need be -- they must do some amount of due diligence -- couldn't a bad solution make your situation worse??) Well good luck! Are you on the wearables list, Joseph? Maybe we could banter about portable UI's there?? ( = I'm all for bantering... and maybe some useful ideas could even come of it! -and on that note, have you even read the "wear-hard" wearables list, I think it is currently archived at: http://wearables.blu.org/ I've been on it for years (and so have a much mbox file for it, which I sometimes search locally) but haven't been keeping up regularly for a while... busy me, har haw haw har; gah. Well good luck on your Quest for the Holy Grail!! (and with school!) ciao and regards, Ben Barrett http://benb.org On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:13:42 -0700 Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- | Hash: SHA1 | | On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 09:57:11AM -0700, Ben Barrett wrote: | > Have you looked at the Yopy? There was just a review on /., maybe? | > It is kind of expensive, though... Joseph, I know it would mean | > *more* cost, but have you thought about getting the cheapest | > full-featured PDA, which you could plug in a VGA adaptor and run a | > 12" screen -- I got an 800x600 12" TFT for like $5, and am thinking | > that driving a larger screen with your handheld app (which I'm sure | > you could manage in the classroom or study-area environment) would | > suit your needs. You could also use the handheld normally, on the | > go, but I'm fairly certain that they make a CF video adaptor, or at | > least a PC card one(tho not all new-class PDA's take PC cards, | > right? Do journadas and ipaqs and their ilk? Drivers?) | | Well, I do have a 12" screen laptop already, the issue is that I | generally cannot use that on tests. I can convince them that a PDA | with calculator program is acceptable. | | | > On another [related] note, have you contacted any companies about | > being a beta-tester, given your state of vision and familiarity with | > a wide array of technology...?? That'd be so cool, to see you | > around with a hot new toy every 6 months, and I'm sure you'd | > appreciate the benefits as well! You'd really [via your feedback] | > be helping make things better, too. | | Well, the only company I've offered to beta-test for recently was | TiVo, and they were not interested.. ;) | | I'n not real sure that many companies care about accessibility or | there would be far more accessible devices. | | - -- | Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cogito eggo | sum | (I think therefore I am a | waffle) | | Unix is mature OS, Windows is still in diapers and they smell badly. | -- Rafael Skodlar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- | Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) | Comment: 1024D/20F62261F1857A3E79FC44F98FF7D7A3DCF9DAB3 | | iEYEARECAAYFAj8N5RYACgkQj/fXo9z52rM/tQCeIezY1UbfE7D+nDHD8mkGVLqb | sUUAoIhUuAkRixnQUFfVKReW4XRAS6Bk | =EnxB | -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- | _______________________________________________ | EuG-LUG mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
