[access-uk] Re: COMMUNICATION SOLUTION
- From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:12:30 +0100
Thanks roger, I don't particularly need spontaneity, I need effective and fast.
Jamie is a lay-out and design guy on the magazine I run so spends most of his
time using a computer keyboard so the manual isn't that good an option.
----- Original Message -----
From: roger south
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 8:48 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: COMMUNICATION SOLUTION
Hi Ian
Sounds like the best solution would be Deaf/Blind Manual. A language for
deafblind people where each letter has a tactile symbol on the fingers. With
practice almost normal speech speed can be reached. If your colleague has BSL
he should know most of it as I am sure it's an off-shoot of BSL. Very easy to
learn but needs practice to build up speed. I'm quite good but when I go to
deafblind meetings I realise I'm no any where as good as I like to think I am.
Most of the options you mention are possible but again it takes time so
departs from the spontaneity of communication. Deafblind UK in Peterborough
used to do Hasicom but I don't know if it's still ongoing and it was a laptop
on Braille display. Very expensive around £8,000 The manual is probably your
best option.
Roger
Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Macrae
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 9:33 AM
Subject: [access-uk] COMMUNICATION SOLUTION
I'm working very closely in my new job with a colleague who's profoundly
deaf. I don't have any BSL and I'm also not a very good lip speaker. At
present we're communicating reasonably effectively using email and text but
sometimes we need to have something that's more instantaneous. I was wondering
two things. 1. Is there a one-line text display which could be hooked up to a
Braille note? Or two, even more effectively, could the text terminal used for
minicom calls be hooked up to the BN so that I could put stuff in and it would
come out in text for him and he could use the qwerty keyboard to put stuff in
which I could then read in Braille on the display?
Ian Macrae
Editor
Disability Now
+44 20 7619 7115
+447795 968743
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