[icon-discuss] Re: Question about the noise level of the keys
- From: Stacey Robinson <staceyr75@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:06:59 -0500
Hi David,
I'm writing this on my braille plus, and it's much slower than if I used a
braillenote or
some other note taker.
I have found that if I don't press the spacebar in just the write spot that it
doesn't
take..
I'm thinking of getting a USB keyboard, but I love brailleing so I may hold out
for the
docking station from APH.
I wonder if I need to send my braille plus to APH to have the keys looked at?
Stacey and Chesley
PS. I find that I write something and it's not what I thought I wrote. Dots are
left
out or inserted, and this doesn't happen to me nearly as much on larger braille
keyboards.
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:33:13 -0500, David Tanner wrote:
>I don't think that the sound is as critical as it is that the design
>and materials of the Braille keys needs a huge change. It is not
>possible to type on the Braille Plus nearly as quickly or accurately
>as on most Braille keyboards. And, I don't know what the Braille
>keys now are exactly like, but the Braille keys on the unit that I
>have are mushey, wobbely, and both feel and sound cheap and poorly
>made. I don't think I have seen as poor quality Braille keys on any
>other Braille device in a long time. And, I cannot believe that
>this keyboard is going to hold up very well, and is not designed in
>such a way to make it possible to type very fast when; as has been
>said before on this list; if you don't press in just the right place
>the keys won't register correctly or at all.
>
>I had my Braille Plus less than three weeks and had to send it back
>to APH to have the keyboard adjusted, and it really needed more, but
>I didn't want to wait an additional 3 weeks to a month for it to go
>to Colorado to get that done. The bottom line is that the material
>used to make the keys on the Braille keyboard need to be changed,
>and something about how the keyboard is designed needs changed.
>Since I don't know what they are doing below the surface of the
>unit. The problem is that the current design is not any place close
>to what it should be when you consider how many people type on a
>Braille keyboard because of their habits formed back when they were
>using a Perkins Braillewriter.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>David Tanner
>Rehabilitation Program Specialist 3
>Assistive Technology Specialist
>Assistive Technology Department
>MN State Services f/t Blind
>Office- 651-642-0795 Cell- 651-270-2233
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>
>>>>richard@xxxxxxxxxxxx 4/16/2008 9:24 PM >>>
>Hi,
>It isn't any louder than a standard keyboard. At least, none of
>the
>keyboards I've used.
>
>And, as someone else pointed out, the ADA would not allow someone
>to be that
>picky.
>
>I took notes on a slate and stylus all the way through a Masters
>program and
>not one professor complained about the noise and the clicking of a
>slate and
>stylus is way more annoying than the keys on the Braille Plus.
>
>So, go order it and use the 30 day return policy to find all this
>out for
>yourself. You won't be sorry you did.
>
>Richard
>
>
>_____
>
>From: icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob
>Lambert
>Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:40 PM
>To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: Question about the noise level of the
>keys
>
>
>
>Understand that I have not actually seen the unit myself, but I
>remember
>having a professor who forbade laptops (except for me because I was
>a
>special case) because she thought the keyboard was too noisy - she
>hated the
>"click click click" sound. Essentailly I didn't want a set of keys
>that
>would be so loud that they'd annoy a teacher while a student was
>trying to
>take notes from a lecture situation.
>
>
>_____
>
>From: ljgehres@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: Question about the noise level of the
>keys
>Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:38:34 -0700
>
>
>Hmm, I must be unique as I think the Braille+ keys are quiet,
>especially
>compared with the Braille 'n Speak.
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Rob Lambert <mailto:rml695@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 3:41 PM
>Subject: [icon-discuss] Question about the noise level of the keys
>
>I was curious. Several people on the list noted that the keys on
>the Braille
>Plus are noisy, both the rubber and plastic keys. Is the noise
>level the
>same on the Icon or is it quieter?
>
>
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