Someone said that Apple will never develop a braille keyboard. However, iOS4, and the latest MacOS version for desktop and laptop Apples, supports bluetooth and usb braille displays, including a full set of braille navigation commands and, in most cases, braille input. After all that work, I do not think it is too far fetched to have them build an onscreen braille keyboard into the device.
Consider, too, the E-Sense (no relation to gwm's notetakers ofr other products) which can let users feel objects on a flat surface, like sighted people use a monitor to see things on a flat screen. If this technology is able to represent braille, I can see it being put into iTouch devices, and then you have the braille keyboard, braille display, and speech, all in one package that costs far less than current electronic braille technology. As to cell phones being updated a lot, they are. However, Apple's updates have never yet broken VoiceOver features, and have in fact introduced more features. Since they own the screen reader and the OS, there is no chance that an upgrade will suddenly leave blind users out of the loop while an update is developed to fix a major accessibility problem. On 8/12/10, Terri Pannett <[email protected]> wrote: > I gave up using a SmartPhone because its battery life was horrible and I got > tired of reinstalling the screen reader, when the battery went too low. > Besides, I don't like their qwerty keyboards. I prefer reading braille, not > speech. > > Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, visit: > > http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv > > -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, visit: http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv
