[gps-talkusers] BrailleNote GPS on other platforms?
- From: "Tor Ulland" <tor.ulland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:14:31 +0200
Hi!
I'm new on this list, so I don't know if this question has been discussed here
earlier. My question is if there are any plans or thoughts of making
BrailleNote GPS available for other platforms than the BrailleNote. Here in
Norway I don't think anybody uses the BrailleNote. There is no tradition here
for using notetakers. People get portable PC's with braille displays and a
screenreader from the social service system. The social service system also
pays for screenreaders like Talks or Mobile Speak for mobile telephones.
I've tested Trekker and Wayfinder, and my opinion is that for me, who are
totally blind Trekker gives much better information than Wayfinder. I'm working
on a national resource centre for the blind, and I've also shown Trekker and
Wayfinder for people that have visited our centre. Most people say that they
prefer Trekker, but they also say that they wish that they could have used it
on their mobile phone because they always have their mobile phone with them.
I've read through the manual for BrailleNote GPS, and it seems like this
program has many functions and possibilities that you don't find in Trekker.
Therefore I think it would be very interesting if the program could be used on
other devices than the BrailleNote. The last year there have come two
screenreaders for the Pocket PC operating system, - Mobile Speak for Pocket PC
and Pocket Hal. In the near future these screenreaders will also work on the
mobile edition that is used on smart phones. I'm not a programmer so I don't
know how difficult it would be to make BrailleNote GPS available for other
devices than the BrailleNote, but since BrailleNote is based on Windows CE I
suppose it's easier to make a version for the Pocket PC operating system than
it would be to make an edition for the Symbian operating system. But if it's
possible to make a version for Symbian phones, I think that would be even
better because a lot of people already have phones with Talks or Mobile Speak.
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