[nfbcs] help in locating serial to USB drivers for ABT380 Alva Braille display

[Lisa Hall]

I am planning to update that information. Since this computer does not have
a serial or parallel port, I have a serial to USB converter box to interface
with the Braille display. I was told to get a driver that would drive the
Braille display. I don't know if this is referring to a screen reader such
as JAWS.



-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Tracy Carcione
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 8:42 AM
To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] help in locating serial to USB drivers for ABT380 Alva
Braille display

Hi Lisa.
I believe that the drivers for my Alva are in Jaws.  All I have to do when I
attach it to a new computer, or install Jaws on a new computer, is to tell
Jaws that I have a braille display, and pick Alva ABT3 from the list Jaws
presents.
I am not using a 64-bit machine, however.
Have you tried hooking the Alva up to the PC, telling Jaws about it, and
seeing what happens?  I think the worst that might happen is it won't see
the Alva.
HTH.
Tracy

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am Lisa Hall from Cincinnati, Ohio. I have recently purchased a used
> ABT380 braille display that have 80 cell display with serial and 
> parallel ports. I was also given a converter box that converts from serial
to USB.
> I
> was told I would need to locate a driver that would drive the Braille 
> display. I am using Windows 7 64-bit machine with JAWS 12 and plan to 
> upgrade to JAWS 13. Can anyone in this division who is an expert in 
> this area give me the name of a driver that I will need to find?
>
>
>
> For many years back in the DOS days, I used the Alva Braille display 
> back in the early to middle 90's and have used it in Windows NT 
> environments and DOS
> 6.2 I think.  Since I obtained this Braille display at a bargain 
> price, it is my hope that I am not making a mistake by getting older 
> technology and hope it will work on newer machines. This will be used 
> on a desktop machine that was refurbished. I had this computer for a 
> year.
>
> I hope to hear from someone in this division who can be of assistance.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
>
> Lisa Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio
>
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>
>
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