Hi Ian Sounds like the best solution would be Deaf/Blind Manual. A language for deafblind people where each letter has a tactile symbol on the fingers. With practice almost normal speech speed can be reached. If your colleague has BSL he should know most of it as I am sure it's an off-shoot of BSL. Very easy to learn but needs practice to build up speed. I'm quite good but when I go to deafblind meetings I realise I'm no any where as good as I like to think I am. Most of the options you mention are possible but again it takes time so departs from the spontaneity of communication. Deafblind UK in Peterborough used to do Hasicom but I don't know if it's still ongoing and it was a laptop on Braille display. Very expensive around £8,000 The manual is probably your best option. Roger Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ian Macrae To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 9:33 AM Subject: [access-uk] COMMUNICATION SOLUTION I'm working very closely in my new job with a colleague who's profoundly deaf. I don't have any BSL and I'm also not a very good lip speaker. At present we're communicating reasonably effectively using email and text but sometimes we need to have something that's more instantaneous. I was wondering two things. 1. Is there a one-line text display which could be hooked up to a Braille note? Or two, even more effectively, could the text terminal used for minicom calls be hooked up to the BN so that I could put stuff in and it would come out in text for him and he could use the qwerty keyboard to put stuff in which I could then read in Braille on the display? Ian Macrae Editor Disability Now +44 20 7619 7115 +447795 968743 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope is a registered charity number 208231. Visit our website at http://www.scope.org.uk This message, and any file(s) transmitted with it are confidential and are intended only for the person(s) to whom they have been addressed by the sender. This message may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if you believe it was transmitted to you in error, you are required to delete the message and any copies of it, and to notify the sender immediately. Any unauthorised disclosure, copying, distribution, or printing of this message or accompanying files, or unauthorised use of any information contained therein, by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any views expressed in this message or in any file(s) transmitted with it are those of the author, and may not necessarily represent the views of Scope.