On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 14:16 +0100, Lisi wrote: > 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?
There's a daemon for Linux doing this. You can use braille even with, at least older Debian installers. Here it is brltty http://mielke.cc/brltty/ that's why I was thinking of w3m. Now I understand what you was asking for :). -- 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/1307803028.2378.174.camel@debian
