[nfbcs] Article on refreshable braille projects

[Tami Jarvis]

Here is the link:

http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw140102

Interesting indeed! I've been around the block long enough now to need 
Tums for sure when I think of all those things that are just around the 
corner when it comes to access to assistive technology. I want it now! I 
*need* it now. And a lot of people I know are in the same position, even 
here in our prosperous country.

There do seem to be more and more ideas and projects focused on making 
refreshable braille affordable and more available for the many. This 
cannot be a bad thing. I can't help thinking that the more blind 
readers/students/workers/thinkers who can snap up these tools without 
that government assistance, the more effect that will have on the market 
and availability of the assistive tools... Or am I just being a rosy 
optimist there? /lol/

So here is another possibility for advancement, waiting just around the 
corner... But there are more and more of those around that same corner 
that sooner or later one might just mature enough to let us catch up to 
it and grab it!

Tami

On 01/29/2013 07:05 AM, Tracy Carcione wrote:
> There's an interesting article in the January Accessworld about a couple
> projects working to develop a more affordable braille display.  One is run
> by the Daisy Consortium, and the other by NBP.
> I don't know how to paste a link, but one can find the article by googling
> Accessworld January 2013.
> Tracy
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