Re: iPad and bluetooth refreshable braille

2010-04-30 Thread erik burggraaf
the alva satelite 544/580's are still current but not really desireable as a new purchase. The alva bc640/80's are not up to the quality standard of the old satelite and definitely not the original alvas, but they have good features such as braille input, compact design, bluetooth and carrying

RE: iPad and bluetooth refreshable braille

2010-04-29 Thread Bryan Smart
...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rob Lambert Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 8:44 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: iPad and bluetooth refreshable braille If they do make it I'd be surprised. On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: OH they still make the al

Re: iPad and bluetooth refreshable braille

2010-04-29 Thread Rob Lambert
If they do make it I'd be surprised. On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > OH they still make the alva? I was looking at that for a braille desplay > and have started to save for it.? > > Take care. > On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:26 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > > > Hi sean, your stud

Re: iPad and bluetooth refreshable braille

2010-04-29 Thread Sarah Alawami
OH they still make the alva? I was looking at that for a braille desplay and have started to save for it.? Take care. On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:26 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > Hi sean, your student is going to be brailleless for a little while longer > yet. When braille arrives in IPhone OS4, the

Re: iPad and bluetooth refreshable braille

2010-04-28 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi sean, your student is going to be brailleless for a little while longer yet. When braille arrives in IPhone OS4, there's not a guarantee that it's going to be as functional as say, braille on the mac, although it will almost sertainly support bluetooth which mac OS didn't support until snow

Re: iPad and bluetooth refreshable braille

2010-04-28 Thread Peter Durieux
Hi, At the moment, there is no refreshable brailledisplay support on iphone os 3.1.x and 3.2. In 4.0 there will be support for it. It will come available on iphone in summer and for ipad in fall. Hope this helps, Kind regards -Peter Op 28-apr-2010, om 21:35 heeft Sean Tikkun het volgende g

Re: iPad and bluetooth refreshable braille

2010-04-28 Thread marie Howarth
as it stands, I don't think braille refreshable displays will work currently with the iPad. I do believe, and anyone can correct me if I'm wrong that this functionality will not work until the iPhone OS 4.0 is available on the iPad which won't be until the fall. HTH On 28 Apr 2010, at 20:35, Se