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

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

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hi
I completely agree here. I was lucky to learn braille at a very early
age, I think I was two or three? I've gotten a little rusty over the
years because the last device I had that had a refreshable display was
an old braille note mPower, but it's long since gone to that parts
warehouse in the sky, I think I still have the motherboard around here
somewhere, sans braille display. If  someone can get their hands on
one orca support for it shouldn't be too difficult, assuming it
doesn't just work out of the box.
Thanks
Kendell clark


Alex Midence wrote:
> 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.
>
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