[blindkid] Stand Alone Braille Display for Academics

DrV icdx1111 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 04:41:19 UTC 2015


All great thoughts & suggestions. Much appreciated.
Eric

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Richard Holloway via blindkid <
blindkid at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> We've had a couple of BT 40's that Kendra won at the Braille Challenge.
> They're nice but Kendra uses her Apex for most needs even having those
> available.
>
> We do leave one to plug into her laptop with JAWS but with things like her
> iPhone, Kendra keeps her phone in a zippered pouch with her Apex and unless
> she needs to hear the speaker or get to the mic she usually leaves it there
> while she controls it from the Apex via Bluetooth.
>
> Mostly she puts a headphone cable into the nearly-closed zipper into her
> phone so she can hear music and alerts while she surfs or texts. Headphones
> with a mix can make the need to take a phone from the case pretty much zero.
>
> I guess the justification would be to make certain devices more easily
> accessible. Depending if you want a larger or smaller display, you could
> "spin" for larger (especially if your apex has the smaller display) to
> facilitate reading larger text bodies more efficiently and if you want the
> small display, focus on a need for portability. Any size might also be
> justified to allow better simultaneous access to multiple devices. Sighted
> users would generally not accept a mandate to use the same display and
> keyboard  for their computer, a PDA and their phone, for example. Also if
> the apex battery was getting depleted too quickly because of using the apex
> as a display, a separate display would extend battery life. Unlike some
> devices, an apex can't easily swap batteries. You have to pull it from a
> carrying case then when the battery comes out it does a hard reset and
> clears various parameters. Nor are there external chargers so to charge
> spares, so you have to keep swapping and clearing out the configuration.
> Clearly the iPhone comments would apply, to some degree, to all iDevices
> and similar units though tablets aren't such a handy fit in the pouch of an
> apex case.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Aug 24, 2015, at 2:25 AM, DrV via blindkid <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> > Hope you all had great summers.
> > The braille displays we check out in the exhibit hall at convention were
> > pretty cool.
> > I know a BrailleNote can be also be used, but the stand-alone units seem
> to
> > offer addition advantages & flexibility.
> > For those of you who have successfully gotten the standalone braille
> > displays to hook up to laptops, desktops & iPads etc - how did you
> justify
> > the need? or what wording would you suggest using to justify the need?
> > Thanks
> > Eric
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