Re: Subscription
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 14:16 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> 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?
There's a daemon for Linux doing this. You can use braille even with, at
least older Debian installers. Here it is brltty
http://mielke.cc/brltty/ that's why I was thinking of w3m. Now I
understand what you was asking for :).
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