okay Mike but maybe wouldn't bump it up more than 800?
http://www.justgiving.com/Eleanor-Burke-Aniridia
On 12 Jul 2019, at 12:33, Michael Cassidy <mike.cassidy137@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Eleanor,
TAVIP had Braille literature :). 40 cells would bump up the price
significantly.
Mike
On 11 Jul 2019, at 16:07, Eleanor Martha Burke
<eleanormarthaburke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
isn't that really interesting John, I was also there on Tuesday. like
yourself I made a specific point of looking at this nine line Braille
Display. I could not have been more disappointed with it. it was so terribly
slow! i'd have read pages in the length of time it took for the device to
reload after it had become frozen! once I had pressed a button to move it on
to the next set of nine lines. it is certainly one device I will not be
looking at in the future.
what took my interest was the Orbit Reader. I only wish that they had also
produced a 40 sell one. just the job if I want to have some prompts at my
fingertips! Literally!
what disappointed me most of all, was the amount of print information on
every stand. The exceptions were of course our friends Mo and Steve Nutt. I
loved interacting with the young people at the new college Worcester stand
and looking at the Braille lego. definitely a must! when it is for sale,
unless somebody here can inform me about what is readily available so that
when speaking about Braille I have something which they can feel to
understand about the different shapes and combinations to make up the
different letters and numbers.I also enjoyed the freebies! offered to me by
the young people on the new college Worcester stand. A brightly coloured,
orange pen! whenever I go to look for a pen for someone I can't always find
one also because they are dark in colour. these fluorescent pens are super
and I also got a fluorescent Orange beaker for water and finally I got a
fluorescent orange bag to hold these items.
as a trustee on aniridia network, we have worked closely with RNIB in
producing an excellent professional fact sheet which I would describe
myself more as a booklet, and while it is readily available for download on
the RNIB website, I visited the stand on Tuesday and found that they had
many booklets on various eye conditions. these booklets were of course in
print format. I said I would have the one on aniridia, which totally threw
them! I must have been very persuasive because I said I'd be back on
Wednesday to pick one up! I also stated that I would be very disappointed if
there was not one there for me! I was not disappointed when I returned on
Wednesday to receive my standard print 10 page stapled document. Half a loaf
is better than none! guess I have the technology to read the print document!
I was very disappointed with the guide dog UK stand. as a guide dog owner
standing there feeling the huge amounts of print information, The person at
the stand did not even engage in conversation with me in relation to guide
dogs, my own guide dog or anything about the organisation. I must have
looked scary!
at the sight and sound stand, when I asked questions about fusion, Jaws and
Zoomtext combined, A person flew off saying he knew nothing about it but
would find someone for me! when I began to discuss pricing with the second
person, he flew off saying he'd have to go and look the information up. I
asked what, do you not have the information there? he said somebody must
have lifted his information sheet. I told him I was looking for pricing
because I had jaws and magic and he gave me his card and told me he would
not be able to provide this information until at least Thursday when I could
contact him again about it. no Braille on contact card! I must remind myself
I have the technology to read his card!
on Wednesday I met our good friend Paul Hopkins, and we had a good chat. One
of the things I did say to Paul was that I was very pleased while he gave me
some instructions to get to site Village he had also encouraged me to look
this up on Google maps. I had done so and had found plenty of information to
assist me with travelling. I was also most impressed with blind Square which
I have on my mobile phone. it certainly helped me getting around Stratford
Road in Shirley and even knowing how long I had to wait for my number five
bus.
I stayed at the red wings Lodge hotel in Shirley, which was fantastic and as
I have a guide dog The local park was literally a two minute walk away. I
was also able to take the bus number five to the venue.
asking people who were in red shirts and the organisers where particular
stands were was not at all helpful as they did not know! instead I found
myself asking the various people on the various stands to direct me where I
wanted to go. there was a very large print map mounted on the wall, which
did not help me and certainly did not seem to help those who there to
assist.
I was very disappointed when I went to look for our friend Mo and admittedly
the company has changed name, but I understand from Mo that he had pointed
this out to the organisers beforehand. I was simply told there was nobody
there under the name of Vi-Tech Solutions at which point I had to send Mo a
text. thankfully I did meet up with him and his brother and mum who are all
part of the company, and had a look on the stand which was very interesting.
but particularly took my interest was the 6 Dots dymo Machine where the
Braille was much more sharp than the dimo gun available from RNIB though
that said, there would be a significant price difference. The six dots had a
Perkins style keyboard which I liked very much. Mo also had a selection of
Nokia mobile phones with talks and while this software may be dated now, I
know a number of blind people who would give anything to have one of these
phones and many I know who are going around struggling with standard button
phones and are so limited in what they can do with their phones without
speech. The company knew exactly what equipment they had on their stand the
prices of the equipment and could talk very knowledgeably about each item.
apologies I am dictating and about to run out of battery so I must end my
critique at this point.
Eleanor
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On 11 Jul 2019, at 15:15, John Ramm <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Clive and all,
I went to Sight Village on Tuesday and was frankly disappointed.
I was really impressed with the Canute from the Bristol Braillists which is
a nine line Braille display currently for just 1700 pounds!! It's a great
piece of kit, not least because it has basically been developed by a bunch
of enthusiasts who feel that refreshable Braille should be cheaper than it
is and decided to do something about it. feeling a properly layed out
Braille table on a refreshable device very nearly had me reaching for my
credit card!
Unfortunately nothing else grabbed my attention as I suppose I'm reasonably
up to date with what's around, so nothing else really exciting to report.
Talk soon, John
At 23:15 10/07/2019, you wrote:
Hello everyone,
I would like to hear from anyone who attended this year's sight village
exhibition in Birmingham. Are there any updated or new products?
Anything you liked (or didn't like)?
Best wishes,
Clive Pallett