[bksvol-discuss] Re: Of screenreaders and other talking tech for validation
- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:51:07 -0600
Nope, just go to www.nfb.org and look for links to the braille monitor.
Your State doesn't have any kind of technology center, or assistive tech
resellers that show the available equipment you could visit? That is usually
free.
Lisa, isn't it a problem that you can only read .txt and .brf files? I
guess you must only read never edit files on your braille lite.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity/
----- Original Message -----
From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 2:19 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Of screenreaders and other talking tech for
validation
>
> Thanks, Sarah, and all who gave feedback. I won't be attending any fancy
> conferences. I can spend that money to help buy whatever I decide on.
>
> So it looks like visiting the websites. Do you have to join NFB to get
the
> Braille Monitor? I have seen copies of someone else's and it is a good
> place for info.
>
> Many thanks to all. I shall go do my research. <smile>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 1:51 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Of screenreaders and other talking tech for
> validation
>
>
> You ask a difficult question. The best way to get an answer to it would
be
> to go to a conference or organization that can show you the different
> options available and let you test them for yourself. I think a lot of
> people have the braille note because it was the first really nice braille
> note taker to come out. Now there are other good ones, and it is really
> what you want to do with it that determines which is the best for you.
>
> If you want it to function a lot like your computer the braille note is
not
> the best, but i think it is really easy to learn how to use, and also
might
> have the best arrangement for simply reading and dealing with braille.
>
> The other popular note taker is freedom scientific's pack mate. It has
more
> software I think, and acts a bit like JAWS and your computer, but of
course
> being braille oriented and being a pocket PC it is different. I also saw
> something really neat and cheeper than the braille note at the Closing the
> Gap conference this October. It is a new braille note taker made by a
> company in Korea, and it seemed to have the most features for the price.
If
> you would really like to know more about it I can probably dig out the
> information and send it to you later today.
>
> If you ever want to have a GPS system as well as a note taker the braille
> note is currently the only one to offer that feature, for an extra price
of
> course. :-)
>
> The Internet is the second best place to look for information. Go to each
> notetaker's web site and review the list of features and the product
> discription. Look to see if there are recent reviews of the products in
the
> access world or braille monitor magazines.
>
>
> Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 12:04 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Of screenreaders and other talking tech for
> validation
>
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> >
> > I have been thinking of buying one of the new notetakers so I can read
> > anywhere... Is Braillenote the favored one?? I am not arguing, just
> > wanting to know.
> >
> > Sue
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Guido Corona" <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 10:31 AM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Of screenreaders and other talking tech
for
> > validation
> >
> >
> > Gisela, if you use a BrailleNote pls ensure that the files you generate
> > are not truncated when moving back to your PC and you do not lose page
> > breaks. Also ensure that long dashes are not lost, nor replace by
> > single or by pair of short dashes.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Guido
> >
> >
> > Guido D. Corona
> > IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx.
> > IBM Research,
> > Phone: (512) 838-9735
> > Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Visit my weekly Accessibility WebLog at:
> > http://www-3.ibm.com/able/weblog/corona_weblog.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Gisela Vazquez" <gvazquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 12/08/2004 09:51 AM
> > Please respond to
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> > I use a screen reader so down near the bottom is good enough. I have
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> > several books that I would like to validate.
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> > I have a question for any totally blind people around. Has anyone used
a
> > braillenote to validate a file? Do you all think there would be a
problem
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