[blindkid] Ipad only

Ashley Bramlett bookwormahb at earthlink.net
Wed Nov 26 23:06:25 UTC 2014


Amber,
Keep the braille sense! As a legally blind student and soon professional, I 
believe notetakers has a place for us braille readers. our devices have our 
needs in mind; a built in display and easy to use keyboard commands. you can 
type in braille too which for many of is is a heck a lot faster than typing 
qwerty style.

A ipad is nice. but it does not have the ease and functionality of the 
braille sense.

Argue to the school she needs to use what is easiest and most efficient. I 
cannot imagine an ipad being as efficient given you got to tap it to execute 
the touch screen functions. besides, pairing it with a display will not give 
you the same functions as using the gestures on screen.
And, you can use the braille sense quietly without speech. no need to use 
voice over!

Have many tools in the toolbox.
Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Amber Hall via blindkid
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 10:51 AM
To: Blind Kid Mailing List
Subject: [blindkid] Ipad only

Hello, it's been a while since I've been on here. But I have a question for 
parents of kiddos who are using iPads with braille display at school. My 
daughter has a braille sense. she's had it for probably four years now. She 
does very good on it, but the school is wanting her to go to iPad only with 
a braille display. I'm kind of hesitant because I know I've heard negative 
things on here about doing that.
Any suggestions on what I can say to help my case when I present it to the 
school?
My daughter loves her braillesense. She's hesitant to go to the iPad because 
a lot of times it doesn't work for think she needs it too. And she is slow 
with it because she doesn't have a lot of experience with it.
But they still want her to transition to only ipad anyway.
Thanks for your help!


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