[Faith-talk] Orbit Reader

[David Andrews]

The Orbit Reader is just a display, it isn't a 
computer or notetaker with many functions.  You 
will need to use a screen reader, like JAWS or 
NVDA, or VoiceOver to support it.\


It may have very basic note taking functions, I 
can't remember, but it will not surf the Internet on its own!

Dave

At 08:37 AM 5/26/2017, you wrote:
>Will the Erbit Reader be able to access the 
>Internet for downloading of books? Also, can the 
>Orbit hold ether content? I'm assuming that it 
>will be very durable. I don't want the surf the 
>web with it, but I'd love to have something that 
>I could download books to, like from BARD and 
>perhaps Bookshare. I wonder how many books it 
>will hold at one time?    Blessings,  
>Â  Debby On May 25, 2017 7:47 PM, David Andrews 
>via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> 
>wrote: > > To the best of my knowledge, Deane 
>Blazie had nothing to do with the > Orbit 
>Reader. It was funded by a consortium including 
>the NFB, RNIB, > APH, and others. The work was 
>done by  Orbit Research. > > NLS is 
>investigating the possibility of making 
>refreshable braille > readers available to their 
>patrons. Nothing is in place yet, and > impact 
>of future budgets and/or  budget proposals is unknown at this time. > >