[vicsireland] Re: Braille displays
- From: "John Lynch" <johnlynch7@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:32:02 -0000
Joan Ann,
Tim put it well there and I'd have to add that from a hearing-impaired
standpoint, I find speech a tad annoying coming through headphones on
hearing aids after a few minutes.
Thus, if it wasn't for a Braille display, I wouldn't be so hooked on the pc,
though this is not necessarily work-related, as pertaining to your
query. I grew up in a generation when Braille books and magazines - few and
all as they were - were a blind person's only access to the written word and
provided minuscule windows to the world way back then, ya know. My, how
things have changed and we're all so much the better for it, whether via
Braille display or synthetic speech.
But when it comes to charts and graphs, neither Braille nor Jaws can
adequately reproduce them as they appear on the screen, if at all in most
cases.
John L
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Culhane" <tim.culhane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 2:12 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Braille displays
Hi Joan Ann,
Well, I suppose it depends on what you are likely to be using a braille
display for and your braille reading speed.
If you are generally reading long documents, then I think speech is
probably
more efficient, simply because few people can read as far as the
synthesiser
can talk.
However, if you are doing lots of editing etc then a braille display is
very
useful for quickly moving to individual words or letters and for verifying
your edits.
It can also be useful if you want toverify formatting.
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joan Ann Brosnan
Sent: 21 November 2011 14:08
To: vicsireland
Subject: [vicsireland] Braille displays
Hi all
I am just wondering how many of you on the list who read Braille use a
Braille display in work and, if so, do you think that it makes it easier
than listening to speech output all the time?
Is it possible to navigate the screen using just the Braille display and
is
it as efficient as using speech?
Thanks for any help.
Joan Ann.
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