[access-uk] Re: when is the new Braille coming out as I have had some information
- From: "Dave Taylor" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:49:31 +0100
Hi, actually, on modern notetakers, the navigation is as good as on a PC,
especially if you're using html. Where notetakers do have a serious problem,
as indeed do braille translators, with is with multi-language work. I
suspect the way to go there is a laptop with one of the modern thin
displays. I'm no expert on Jaws Braille support, but I guess if it can
switch languages in speech, it can do it in braille too, or, obviously, good
old fashionned hard copy. I'm not suggesting, and even less advocating the
end of traditional delivered books, just forecasting their decline.
Modern document types do allow for language switching though so the PC route
is one way there. I do agree that is less convenient unless one has a tiny
bluetooth braille display!
Cheers
Dave
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From: "ari" <aridamoulakis@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 6:37 PM
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [access-uk] Re: when is the new Braille coming out as I have had
some information
Dave, Could you give me some sort of pointers for electronic braille
documents? Most of my work I study with JAWS, but, for example, I study a
Zulu and Spanish, and if given a choice in class I'll always opt for
hard-copy over any form of electronic braille because of the following:
1. With hard-copy, I can quickly scan the and find what I'm looking for,
quickly see new paragraphs, headings and subsections of the work, example if
the lecturer says go to number B, I can just quickly scan the begining of
lines to get to where I want to go. You could try and use find and replace
with a notetaker, but believe me, it's a lot slower, and absolutely crap
trying to wrestle with a small braille display. Navigation features on a
notetaker are awful compared to a laptop or computer. Also, if a person is
rapidly reading a dialogue or a piece of text, it's much easier finding the
end of it with hardcopy. Not to mention that language support on a pac mate
is awful. What would be cool is if a large display, the size of a braille
page could be invented, but that is of course still a dream. I must agree
with you about braille versus audio for studying or reading books, I could
never read as much in braille in a day compared to what I can study on my
book courier, you don't need to worry about the physical aspect when you're
studying for an exam, it's then just mental. It's great to even be able to
be in bed at 1 in the morning listening to your work in a frantic,
student-like effort to try and cram everything in!-)
Ari
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