Hi Tom.
I think the specific applications of braille are just getting fewer and
fewer. For instance, up until recently i'd have agreed that braille was
needed to lable items like dvds or cooker controls, but the pen friend can
actually do that far more quickly and easily than in braille.
Ditto with text reading, sinse for me, even if I want a spelling of a name,
it would be far quicker to just find it with hal's virtual curser and have
Hal spell it than it would be in braille.
The only times I have wished for a braille display are for spacial
information, such as roguelikes, but even then, a braille display has such a
small cell count they'd be dam hard to play and get any sort of overview.
As I said, I've heard of some developements in braille display technology
that were planned to produce larger models that could create full on tactile
maps or boards for games, and in those circumstances I could see braille as
an advantage, but until such a thing is made and effectively braille is
sinked with modern technology, I'm not sure how much longer it will persist
as a medium, particularly sinse anything written in braille can only be read
by another blind person.
For spelling, while I see your point, there is another arguement, sinse I
noticed myself that after switching from grade two braille to typing, there
were so many words I just couldn't spell, words like little or necessity,
because I was used to using contractions, and it was only spell checking
documents that taught me differently.
Indeed, on the spelling front my own philosophy is simply if it reads okay
when i check it through, then for informal stuff like mails and forum posts
that's fine. I get irritated at people's grammar, on occasion because of
lack of reading through their correspondance, and occasionally there are!
errors in spelling that could've been fixed if they'd used a screen reader
correctly.
For formal occasions, such as my thesis or some more serious things I write,
that is what a spell checker is for.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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