From nancyyeager542 at comcast.net Fri Jul 19 15:50:34 2019 From: nancyyeager542 at comcast.net (nancyyeager542 at comcast.net) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 11:50:34 -0400 Subject: [NFBV-Seniors] Next Senior Conference Call - July 24 Message-ID: <00c601d53e49$b4748ed0$1d5dac70$@comcast.net> We will hold the next Senior Division conference call on Wednesday, July 24 at 7:00 pm. Call-in numbers are below: Phone: (605) 472-5481 Access Code: 304571 pound We will recap the National Convention and begin planning our Senior activity at the upcoming state convention. We hope you can join us and share your seminar ideas. Nancy Yeager, President, NFBV Senior Division (703) 283-2524 Nancyyeager542 at comcast.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nancyyeager542 at comcast.net Fri Jul 26 21:54:33 2019 From: nancyyeager542 at comcast.net (nancyyeager542 at comcast.net) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 17:54:33 -0400 Subject: [NFBV-Seniors] Senior Events During Convention - Port Smith Message-ID: <006701d543fc$b66f3a60$234daf20$@comcast.net> During Wednesday's Senior Call, we discussed the possibility of holding a Senior Fair on Friday afternoon, Nov. 1 and a Senior Seminar on Saturday Afternoon, Nov. 2. Suggested Fair demonstrations and Seminar Topics are below: We will continue planning these events during the August Senior Call. Senior Fair Possible demonstrations: iPhone; Android Senior box items from independence market; News-line; NLS books; Victor Stream; Medical devices; Labeling techniques; writing aids: signature guide, 20/20 pens, bold line paper; Blindness techniques: pouring, etc.; Games - Large print and Braille playing cards, board games, etc.; Alexa and or Google (maybe); Saturday Seminar Ideas Exercise; Nutrition; -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anwar3746 at gmail.com Tue Jul 30 14:48:55 2019 From: anwar3746 at gmail.com (Anwar N) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 20:18:55 +0530 Subject: [NFBV-Seniors] Advanced Braille Keyboard Message-ID: Dear Friend, My friend Nalin developed an on screen Braille keyboard for android mobile phones. Available in playstore. Please try it out and spread the information to the persons who are in need. Below states the information about the keyboard Advanced Braille Keyboard(A.B.K) is basically a tool for typing text in smart devices. It allows one to use touch screen(Braille Screen Input) or physical keyboard connected through Bluetooth or OTG cable to type text in a Perkins-like way, i.e. braille patterns. Simultaneous multiple press of combination will produce respective letters. What is Advanced-Braille-Keyboard : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXfcIBEWNy4 User manual : https://advanced-braille-keyboard.blogspot.com/ Video Tutorials : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe261Vm-VvvAOCS-oRyI-8sb7MrM-wogl Forum : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/advanced-braille-keyboard Features 1 Languages : - English, French, Spanish, Hindi, Arabic, Russian, German, Polish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Czech, Croatian, Romanian, Italian, Dutch, Hungarian, Tamil, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Bengali-Bangladesh, Bengali-Indian, and Kannada. 2 Braille Screen Input :- Use touch screen to input using braille combinations, simultaneous braille combination press on touchscreen will produce respective letter. 3 Physical Keyboard Input : - Use Bluetooth keyboard or USB keyboard connected through OTG cable to input text by pressing respective braille combination simultaneously. 4 Support Abbreviations & Contractions in grade 2 and grade 3 in English and Malayalam. 5 Support Punctuation's, Emoji's, and Numerals(Nemeth code). 6 Simple-Mode : - Simplified braille for kids and beginners by avoiding contractions and abbreviations. 7 Conventional Braille Mode : follow same rules of braille instead of Unicode based. 8 One Hand Mode : - Type using one hand by separating braille combination to first and second half. First 1,2,3 turns to 4,5,6. 9 Keyboard configuration : - Change keys representing each dots and other keys such as punctuation, abbreviation, capital, map switching, letter deletion and one hand skip. Regards, Anwar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: