[nfbcs] Accessibility Anywhere Braille Display Petition

[Steve Jacobson]

Laura,

It is my understanding that generally, Freedom Scientific requires the display manufacturers or sellers to write the drivers for JFW.  Whether this is fair or not, it means 
that you probably need to complain to the manufacturer of your display in this case.  

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:34:16 -0600, tribble wrote:

>I agree with this, and would add that the screen reader developers should be 
>required to support all braille displays.
>I've been waiting for FS to recognize my brailliant but it's been several 
>releases now since I got the display and they still haven't put it in their 
>menus.
>I have to do some low level nit picking to get the drivers in and much jaws 
>program files folders to insert the brailliant as an option.
>What can I say, I'm glad it is possible to use it with jaws, but why should 
>I have to edit low leverl folders and files to use my braille display? These 
>methods can be trashed very easily as new releases come out and 
>implementations evolve.
>Grumble........
>--le

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Serotek Announcements (by way of David Andrews<dandrews at visi.com>)" 
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>To: <david.andrews at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:34 AM
>Subject: [nfbcs] Accessibility Anywhere Braille Display Petition



>A petition has been started by George McDermith at
><http://www.petitiononline.com/brldis/petition.html>http://www.petitiononline.com/brldis/petition.html
>asking Braille display manufacturers to base their drivers on the
>human interface protocol, found on all Windows computers.  Such a
>design philosophy will ensure that users can be certain of having
>support for their Braille display on any computer, not just one which
>has been custom-configured for such access, and will eliminate the
>need to depend on specific screen reader drivers.



>The text of the petition reads as follows:



>"To: Braille display manufacturers
>We, the undersigned, who are Braille display users, friends and
>family of Braille display users, and teachers of the blind,
>*: Believe that accessibility to information for the blind on a par
>with their sighted piers is a right. Believe that due to this right,
>and due to the cost of Braille displays, accessing Braille through
>the use of Braille displays should not be limited by the type of
>screen reading solution used by the blind.
>*: Strongly request that all manufacturers of Braille displays cease
>basing the drivers of their Braille displays off of particular screen
>reader drivers, but rather base all Braille display drivers off of
>the Human User Interface Protocol, which can be found on all Windows 
>computers.
>*: This will allow true portability and equal access to information
>for the blind, as they will be able to use their display with any
>computer. This will create greater competition in the market for the
>best Braille display to stand out, grant greater literacy in Braille
>through greater access to electronic Braille books and other
>materials, and support the right of all blind people to have
>accessibility anywhere."



>To add your support to this worthy cause, visit the petition web page at

><http://www.petitiononline.com/brldis/petition.html>http://www.petitiononline.com/brldis/petition.html



>The Serotek Team



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