[bookport] has any heard of this divice
- From: "Richard Fiorello" <richkar1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bookport" <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:35:04 -0400
Hi;
I don't often post to the list but can't resist. My issue with note takers
be they braille notes or packmates is that you end up learning an entire new
system. Why bother when a lap top and screen reader will do the same thing.
As for technology, it works great at home or if it is on its own. Take it
to work and connect it to your employers network and software which wasn't
written with a blind user in mind and you have a real eye opening. The next
challenge may be to see what the screen reader folks do with the increasing
amount of documents that end up as scanned immages. True you can supposedly
run them through your open book or kurzwile but it is by no means straight
forward. As fun as the technology can be I often think that for every step
forward adaptive items take the real world takes at least two steps.
Richard
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