[NFBCS] Refreshable braille displays

[Nancy Coffman]

Hello:

I am delighted that you are building your Braille proficiency.  I agree that you will want to consider what else you want to do with your display.  I enjoy using a Braille display with my phone.  Most displays have Bluetooth and will work with any smart phone using Voiceover or BrailleBack.

I have used a Focus, 4th generation and it works very well with JAWS and with phones.  It also works with NVDA. I We have an Orbit Reader 20 at work and recently purchased an Orbit Reader 40. I think the Orbits may be ok as an introductory display but they are slow so it may be difficult to build up speed. The Orbit reader 40 units that we have purchased had to be returned immediately for repair and one of the 2 units had to be returned again. On the other one, some dots are very slow to come up.  For my money, a 20 cell display would be a better value, although I am not a programmer so that may not be true for you. 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jan 15, 2022, at 11:01 PM, John J. Boyer via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello Charles,
> 
> I have three Focus 40 Blue displays from Freedom Scientific. I am very satisfiedd with them. I have used them with Python. 
> Spacing is easy to determine by counting the cursor-routing buttons or simply moving up and down and seeing if the start of material in adjacent lines is the same. 
> 
> Good luck in achieving Braille proficiency.
> John
> 
>> On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 01:00:08PM -0600, Charles Vanek via NFBCS wrote:
>> Hi all, I’m looking for a recommendation for a refreshable braille display to use with windows and Mac. I am a braille novice, long story short since I had some vision I was told I didn’t need to learn it so all I have learned on my own is numbers letters and very basic symbols. I want to use the display for computer programming where spacing is very relevant, amongst using it for other general purpose tasks. I also hope that this will help me learn all of the characters and become far more proficient.
>> 
>> What I’d like to know is your recommendation, how you use it, and why you particularly like that display for its various other features. I’m probably indifferent as to whether it is USB or Bluetooth. Obviously both would be nice to half.
>> 
>> Thanks all in advance.
>> 
>> 
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