Re: [orca-list] the low cost canute braille display

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Yeah, it's a bit of a stretch for just an eBook reader but, totally 
doable if it's a refreshable braille display that you can apply for 
general reading purposes i.e. screenreader output.  All things 
considered, the idea that there is a refrehsable braille device of any 
kind out there for such a low price and multiline to boot is wonderful 
to me.  I have always been a proponent of braille literacy and I find it 
immensely alarming how many blind people can't read it because they 
don't find it practical to use in the home or outside of academia 
because of bulky hardcopy or inaccessibly expensive devices. Audio 
speech output is no substitute for direct interaction with the text, 
imho.  Yeah, you can speed things up such that you inhale data at 750 
wpm but, what are you gonna do when your kid wants you to read him a 
bedtime story or your church wants you to read from the Bible or you 
want to be a guest reader at your favorite book club.

Alex M



On 6/24/2015 5:36 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> Well, there's enough processing power in the latest raspberryPI to make it refresh fast enough if the code is 
> right, and it's fos, so someone should
> make it right if it is not.
> I think this has a lot of potential, and now that the word is out hopefuly mor  ppl will start contributing 
> to the project.
> I've never had any e-braille device, but this is coming pretty close to being something I'd find a way to 
> afford assuming the code gets written so that
> I can use it with screenreader output, i.e. not just as a ebook reader.
>