It's a real shame that you don't use braille more often. Why use a computer
for a game of solitaire when brailled cards are just as good if not better?
Cards give a card game a totally different atmosphere. Without them, it's
just a computer game. No feel to it whatsoever.
I am fortunate enough to have a Bluetooth 40-cell braille display, and I use
it to read NLS books on my iPhone. Someone sends me word scramble puzzles
through Email that I solve with the braille rather than with speech. No
need to arrow around, just read the jumbled word and unscramble it. To me,
braille is a method for which such puzzles are tailor made. Speech just
flat doesn't cut it. Why use an electronic device to label when braille
works better? You don't need to use a device to read your labels when
you've got perfectly good fingers.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 3:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] the cost of documentation - Re: Some
practicalquestionsreguarding the Monopoly game
Hi Dark:
A full sized braille display, as in being able to see an entire page
of text, would be heaven. As it is the best we can do is an 80 cell
display which shows one line of text at a time, and while useful its
not as detailed as I would prefer. I also don't have $5,000 to spend
on a new display so rarely use braille on a day to day basis.
The most I use braille for is labeling the buttons on the microwave,
perhaps playing a hand of Solitaire with a braille deck of cards, or
labeling DVD movies or something. Otherwise I have little use for
braille. Even the things I use braille for could be replaced by
something else.
For example, while I have braille on my microwave I could just mark
each button with some raised dots to indicate the position of each
button. For labeling DVD cases I could get something like your
penfriend which would be an audible label rather than a braille one.
For Solitaire I can play GMA Solitaire or something else like that. So
braille has an extremely low use in my own life since graduation.
Cheers!
On 12/11/13, dark <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Tom.
I could see a braille revival if the technology to produce it ever
catches
up with speech in cost and ease of use, since imagine all the
possibilities
of a full sized tactile screen with brailled text, but failing such a
technological and economic development your likely right.
Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is not really something to
get
into, but it does seem the way things are going, ---- heck the principle
reason why I, despite knowing grade two braille don't own a braille
display
is due to the extreme cost and the fact that such a thing would be a
luxury,
not a necessity.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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