Re: Subscription
On Saturday 11 June 2011 13:12:25 shawn wilson wrote:
> On Jun 11, 2011 5:27 AM, "Lisi" <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> 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.
>
> Yeah, there are braille tablets with mechanical 'dots'. However they cost
> some real money. Also as one who constantly brushes dust, skin, and hair
> off my macbook, I have no idea how you'd keep one of those clean.
This:
http://www.rnib.org.uk/shop/Pages/ProductDetails.aspx?category=transcription_software&productID=HT10601
was all I was able to find this side of the pond, and it claims only to be
able to translate word processor documents, not Internet pages. Have you a
reference?
I have also found this:
http://www.tabletedia.com/news/1113.html
but that refers to the future.
> This is about 80% OT but you asked. I'm also sure that Google can get you
> more reliable info on this topic than I. Hopefully if you design software
> or web pages, you'll consider how you'd use it without eyes.
We are a long way from web sites designed with blind people in mind. Most are
designed without consideration even for the partially sighted!
Lisi
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