On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 10:27 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 11 June 2011 10:05:04 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I've good luck, because I can skip a lot when watching at the monitor, I > > guess using braille, people have to read much more irrelevant stuff. > > I'm fascinated. How do you read braille from a monitor??! > > My blind friends (even one who can read Braille at a phenomenal rate) all use > text to speech software. Though the point about difficulty scanning still > holds good. > > That is not sarcasm incidentally. I would genuinely like to know how you can > use braille to read things on the Internet. They can use special hardware for that, it 'translates' the written text to a line of braille on a physical device. Googling "braille hardware gave me this link on top: http://www.indiana.edu/~iuadapts/technology/hardware/braille/index.html I have no experience whatsoever with any kind of these devices and Linux, wearing a pair of glasses is enough for me to clearly read the screen. I am no expert by any means. > > Lisi > > Kind regards, Steven
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