I've also got a Focus 40 Blue, and it works good whether connected to a PC
with the USB cable or through Bluetooth using an iPhone, but it's not good
when using audio based games, of course. It's excellent for reading books
downloaded using the BARD app. I can't see the very short displays, though.
They cost less, but I would hate to have to read roughly 6 lines on the
display to read 1 80 character line. That just seems to be too much
scrolling.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Teresa Cochran" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] The cost of Braille Displays
I’ve often been tempted by the small displays, but settled on a 40-cell,
because I read a lot of ebooks in Braille on my iPod. So I took my lumps and
bought the more expensive Focus 40. I just don’t know how much I would like
constantly scrolling a small display with only a few words on each line.
Those displays are intriguing, though. One of these days I may get talked
into one, at least as a secondary display.
teresa
Slow down; you'll get there faster.
On Dec 13, 2013, at 4:23 AM, Jorge Gonçalves <[email protected]> wrote:
There is at least one braille display cheapper than the Focus 14. It is
the BraillePen 12 from Harpo which is made in Poland.
In Harpo they claim it is less than one thousand dollars.
I own a Focus 14
and really I love it. It's small, light, it feets in pocket and I have
braille everywhere.
If we talk about price vc quolity probably the Focus 14 is unbeatable.
I also heard about cheap braille displays made in India but I don't know
much about it.
Cheers,
Jorge
Em 12/12/2013 16:03, Charles Rivard escreveu:
The least expensive and most portable Bluetooth braille display I am
aware of is from Freedom Scientific. iFocus 14 is a 14-cell braille
display that can just about fit into a shirt pocket. It will connect to
an iPhone 5 or higher. It will work using either Bluetooth or USB 2.
The cost is $1,295, not including that darned SMA (service maintenance
agreement) of $250.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward"
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To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 3:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] accessibility for the deaf/blind
Hi Charles:
No one I know of, but that would depend on if they carry a notetaker
like a Braille Note etc along with them in a backpack. Back in the day
I always use to take my Braille N' Speak with me every where I went,
and could look up notes, shopping lists, and even had custom menus I
copied down from the print menus so I would have a copy to look at. It
is possible some deaf-blind customers may choose to do something
similar and have a notetaker and braille display on hand just to use
their notetaker as a notetaker where a sighted person might keep such
information on their phone or tablet.
I don't doubt that carrying a braille display around is a major
inconvenience, but we are talking about an extra disability that you
or I don't have. A deaf-blind person can't simply pick up an iPhone,
Android phone, and use it with speech as you or I could. So that
person probably needs a braille display close at hand in order to
operate any number of electronic devices a blind person would
otherwise use with speech output.
Cheers!
On 12/11/13, Charles Rivard <[email protected]> wrote:
How many people carry a braille display with them to a restaurant?
They are
very expensive, as you know. You are born with your fingers.
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