Again, we do this in my state. Blind persons can get what ever adaptive equipment especially for work. This could be radically different state to state though. You don’t need braille displays though to be literate in braille and teach / learn. I imagine it helps but they definitely didn’t exist when I was a student. > On Oct 2, 2015, at 9:40 AM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: > > I haven't seen any statistics lately, but I have heard in the past that > Europe had a much higher literacy rate for Braille than we do. That is not > surprising given the cost of the hardware, and the fact that, at least as far > as I understand it, it is subsidized, so that all the blind people who need > one can get a display at no cost in many European countries. We certainly > cannot do that here. > Mary > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Oct 2, 2015, at 5:23 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Nah Anders, I feel your pain completely. Even iOS has acceptable braille >> support, so it’s not as if they couldn’t port that over to OS X. Clearly >> nobody at Apple uses or cares about braille. Probably because it doesn’t >> make them any money from hardware sales. Kinda tragic. >> >> Hey Scott, you can stop trolling now. The grand old US of A isn’t exactly >> known for its braille literacy or deep regard for environmentalism either. :) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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