On Saturday 11 June 2011 13:12:25 shawn wilson wrote: > On Jun 11, 2011 5:27 AM, "Lisi" <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Saturday 11 June 2011 10:05:04 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > I've good luck, because I can skip a lot when watching at the monitor, > > > I guess using braille, people have to read much more irrelevant stuff. > > > > I'm fascinated. How do you read braille from a monitor??! > > > > My blind friends (even one who can read Braille at a phenomenal rate) all > > use > > > text to speech software. Though the point about difficulty scanning > > still holds good. > > > > That is not sarcasm incidentally. I would genuinely like to know how you > > can > > > use braille to read things on the Internet. > > Yeah, there are braille tablets with mechanical 'dots'. However they cost > some real money. Also as one who constantly brushes dust, skin, and hair > off my macbook, I have no idea how you'd keep one of those clean.
This: http://www.rnib.org.uk/shop/Pages/ProductDetails.aspx?category=transcription_software&productID=HT10601 was all I was able to find this side of the pond, and it claims only to be able to translate word processor documents, not Internet pages. Have you a reference? I have also found this: http://www.tabletedia.com/news/1113.html but that refers to the future. > This is about 80% OT but you asked. I'm also sure that Google can get you > more reliable info on this topic than I. Hopefully if you design software > or web pages, you'll consider how you'd use it without eyes. We are a long way from web sites designed with blind people in mind. Most are designed without consideration even for the partially sighted! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201106111416.55640.lisi.re...@gmail.com
