From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Proposed Aid for the nearly blind
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:45:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Df6dnV5H1abbqIXdRVn-sQ@comcast.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40183206.5040805@acm.org>
Donald Brownlee wrote:
> They use software that converts text to speech.
At Geotronics we had a blind programmer and tried out
many of the available aids, including text-to-speech.
It wasn't very useful when applied to C source text!
There is also a fingertip pin array that tracks a
scanner, allowing the operator to "feel" contrasty
shapes. That was useful for examining plots but not
very good for text.
The best text aid we found was a VersaBraille
terminal, which had a ticker-tape-like scrolling
Braille display and chording Braille keyboard. It
was very handy that the Unix terminal driver had
decent support for monocase devices (think Teletype
model 33), flagging uppercase output with \ prefix.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-29 10:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-28 20:35 west9
2004-01-28 22:04 ` Donald Brownlee
2004-01-29 0:41 ` [9fans] " Jim Choate
2004-01-29 0:52 ` boyd, rounin
2004-01-29 10:45 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2004-01-29 13:05 ` [9fans] " Martin C.Atkins
2004-01-29 18:03 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-01-29 18:42 ` Jim Choate
2004-01-29 22:51 ` Michael H. Collins
2004-01-30 15:25 ` Jim Choate
2004-01-30 15:46 ` Michael H. Collins
2004-01-30 1:52 ` boyd, rounin
2004-01-29 14:57 ` Jim Choate
2004-01-29 17:49 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-01-29 18:40 ` Jim Choate
2004-01-30 10:03 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-01-30 5:18 ` Jack Johnson
2004-01-29 0:14 ` boyd, rounin
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