Your Experience with Braille Displays
- From: Kerneels Roos <kerneels@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:14:42 +0200
Hi everyone,
In a recent conversation with a fellow member of this list, I got a strong
impression that, with the aid of a Braille display one would be able to be a
lot more productive when coding, especially if the display is sufficiently
large (80 cells for example).
I myself have never used a Braille display and have been learning Braille
for the last year and a half with reasonable success. As a programmer who
has been in the industry for about 10 years now I can totally understand how
a Braille display could assist you, especially with those long lines of
object upon object ending in some deep down function call. Or some of those
heavily nested conditional C-style expressions:
result = (condition1 || condition2) && condition3 ? value1 : (condition4 ?
value4 : value5)
or something similar and more complex -- the above one is quite trivial :-).
But how have you experienced programming with a Braille display at your
service?
Has there been any particular model / make / design which you can recommend
above others?
Are there any models you absolutely could not get along with, or which were
unreliable and broke all the time?
And how about screen reader compattibility? In your opinion, does screen
reader X stand out at working the best with a Braille display while screen
reader Y failed you dismally.
And lastly, has there been any particular language you absolutely could not
get any joy with while trying to read code with a Braille display?
Many questions, I know, but feel free to respond with anything you feel
strongly about regarding this topic.
Eager to hear your responses,
K
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Kerneels Roos
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Skype: cornelis.roos
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