[talks-uk] Re: Just curious, how helpful is a Braille display really?

  • From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:31:39 -0000

Alex thankfully I am not a cynic and indeed deaf people and blind with hearing 
difficulties who are Braille users certainly do use mobile phones for texting 
and Internet.  Let's face it Alex with these more expensive phones they are 
like mini computers.  I have so much stuff (data actually) on mine, when I had 
updated the firmware and went in to my local 02 shop to see if they could 
assist with the re-enabling of Talks, apart from the fact that the man did not 
know what to do, he nearly 'died' when he saw all that was on my phone and 
simply discribed it as 'unreal'.  fortunately a more adventerous young man in 
another shop who knew nothing about Talks etc, gave it a go and got it working 
within minutes for me.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alex Stone 
  To: talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 9:25 PM
  Subject: [talks-uk] Re: Just curious, how helpful is a Braille display really?


  Eleanor, A cynic might suggest that a mobile phone isn't going to be an awful 
lot of use to a deaf-blind person.
  Cheers
  Alex


  From: Eleanor Burke 
  Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 12:02 PM
  To: talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Subject: [talks-uk] Re: Just curious, how helpful is a Braille display really?


  I do not have one at present but I think it is invaluable to a deaf-blind 
person for a start and know some who have them for their mobile phones!!!  
Another use is where one might be travelling and have business files to deal 
with, or does not want an ear phone stuck in their ear for a few hours so can 
access their data via the Braille display.  Now must go and brave the frost and 
snow, though thankfully much of it is melting now!

  eleanor
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Hussein Patwa 
    To: talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 11:45 AM
    Subject: [talks-uk] Just curious, how helpful is a Braille display really?


    Hi,

     

    I hope no-one minds my asking this question.  I don't want to cause 
offence, however I've never had the opportunity to ask someone this in person 
and I'm genuinely interested to know.

     

    How much does having a Braille display really help with practical use of a 
cell phone?  I'm thinking not only from the portability perspective, but also 
as phones are still rarely used as primary communication devices other than for 
making calls of course.  Plus they are more mobile so you'd have to take the 
Braille display everywhere with you. I'm assuming it isn't small enough to be 
operable entirely one-handed as a cell phone is.

     

    If I use a PC as a parallel.  I know several people who prefer to use a 
Braille display with their PC particularly for tasks such as programming or 
mathematics, as they find it more practical rather than the tedious task of 
having the speech repeat the same thing over and over again, or speak out every 
punctuation mark or symbol.  The Braille display would give them all the access 
to the information and it just stays there for them to access without 
repetition.

     

    But I can't reconcile or picture in my mind how it would be of help with a 
cell phone.  the phone itself is so small, battery life relatively short in 
comparison to other devices and then there's the whole issue of speech already 
being on the phone.

     

    Sorry if this sounds so obvious to everyone else, but I'd welcome being 
enlightened and hearing about your experiences.  Feel free to contact me off 
list if it's felt replying to this publically would cause needless clutter.

     

     

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