[access-uk] Re: Braille display options

  • From: "David W Wood" <g3yxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 14:22:37 -0000

The Alva with feature pack is £4,090 from memory.
I cannot recall the prices of the others.


David W Wood

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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
william lomas
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 2:01 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Braille display options

how much is it?

On Nov 3, 2010, at 2:01 PM, David W Wood wrote:

> I am also on the task of updating my technology and have gone for the Alva 
> 640 with feature pack and the 680 also.
> The 640 with feature pack not only works as a note taker but allows you to 
> remotely control a Windows machine as there are windows, control and alt 
> keys.  It also has Bluetooth built in which enables you to link remotely to 
> your PC  and also hear the PC output as it has speakers inbuilt.
> 
> I was very quickly impressed by it.
> 
> David W Wood
> 
> GUILDFORD PHYSIOTHERAPY AND SPORTS CLINIC
> MATTHEWS HOUSE
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> GUILDFORD
> SURREY GU1 3PA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Pele West
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 9:18 AM
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> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Braille display options
> 
> Hi Catherine, Jackie and Everyone
> 
> I would endorse Jackie's praise for the Alva BC640.  A man came to visit us 
> from Optelec to demonstrate it before my husband bought one.  
> 
> Essentially, there are 3 models:
> 
> The Alva BC640 with the Braille Feature Pack which allows you to use it as a 
> note taker
> 
> The Alva BC640 without the Braille Feature Pack, which is just a 40 cell 
> display
> 
> And the Alva BC680 which is an 80-cell display but not a note taker.
> 
> It does not need any special software.  The demonstrator plugged it into the 
> USB port on a Windows 7 PC with Window-Eyes and it worked straight away.  I 
> can't remember it searching for any drivers but, if it did, it found them 
> very quickly.
> 
> I also like the Brailliant displays from Humanware.  Mine works with 
> Window-Eyes and Windows 7, but when I bought it it would not work with the 
> 64-bit 
> version of Windows 7 and JAWS.  This may have changed.
> 
> It is harder to install than the Alva as a USB port has to be configured to 
> replicate a serial port and, when mine came, it had an old software disc.  
> Fortunately, I had downloaded the latest software from Humanware.
> 
> I hope all this helps.
> 
> Pele West
> 
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