[access-uk] Re: Perkins and other Braillers

  • From: "Barbara Wilson" <barkingbabs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:53:47 +0100

Yes, it would be very laborious to produce anything longer than a note or short list. Designed to be portable, taken out and about. 


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----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Threadgold" <m.j.threadgold@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 6:05 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Perkins and other Braillers



Carol,

From their website, the Jot a Dot is only for standard thin paper and not
for thick paper or card.  It takes A5 or A6 paper.  You select the braille
keys of the letter you want to produce and then squeeze the Jot a Dot
together to make the braille imprint.  In this manner it differs from the
perkins which makes the character when you press the keys. I would imagine 
it would make brailling a tedious process for anything larger than a note.
It is also far far smaller and lighter.

http://www.jotadot.com.au/


Mark Threadgold

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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Carol Pearson
Sent: 18 July 2009 17:58
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Perkins and other Braillers
Alexander, can you tell us what the Jot a Dot is like, please? We've never 
seen one.  Is it quiet, fast, only used on thin and smaller paper or what?
(Mike's just told me he doesn't think you can get them now. Is that right?) 

I'm just interested ... because I seem to have missed out on knowing about
them.

--
Carol
carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

---- Original Message ----
From: "Alexander Shannon" <alexander.shannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 3:54 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Perkins and other Braillers


Hi Mark,

I've been following this thread, and would like to comment
that, although I haven't used a jot a dot, I've seen one
in use, as my wife, Carol has one and uses it for making
notes
in Braille.  The only drawback with the jot a dot, in my
opinion at least, is the fact that it doesn't use the same
size of paper as the Perkins, so it's OK if you want to
make short notes or write lists, but if you wanted to
write a Perkins size page of Braille on a jot a dot, I
don't think that would work, as it would take up more
than one page of
the size of paper used for the jot a dot.

Alexander Shannon


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