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… <www.myreader.com> or <www.pulsedata.com>. Lower Priced Braille Displays "Our customers told us that they wanted a more ergonomic control layout, a braille display that felt like paper, and lower prices," … the company's recent announcement of its newest refreshable braille displays. With the Focus 40 and Focus 80 (a 40-cell …
AccessWorld January 2005

Keeping It Portable: Comparing Braille Displays on iOS Devices, Part II

… In Part I of this series , I examined the Refreshabraille and Smart Beetle. In this article, I will be reviewing the Braille Pen Touch and the Focus 14. Both of these displays … functionality at slightly different price points. The BraillePen 12 Touch The BraillePen 12 Touch is a 12-cell …
Scott Davert
AccessWorld December 2017

Inform & Connect Season 3: Clarke Reynolds

… says. “Now the dots mean something, as I've discovered Braille.” Transcript Melody Goodspeed: Hey, everybody. … open up another question like this. Let's talk about your braille suit. Oh, that was fun. Clarke Reynolds: Well, yes. … I say, I'm a blind artist, but I'm known now as the Blind Braille Artist. Melody Goodspeed: Ooh. Clarke Reynolds: …

Product Features

… Product Features Feature: Trekker; BrailleNote GPS Speech output: Trekker: Yes; BrailleNote GPS: Yes. Braille output: Trekker: No; BrailleNote GPS: Yes. …
AccessWorld November 2004

An Accessible, Pricey Answer: A Review of the Mobile Phone Organizer

… contacts. Physical Description AccessWorld evaluated the braille MPO model 5500. This product features eight braille input keys, synthetic speech output, and a 20-cell refreshable braille display. ALVA's other model, the MPO 5200, is …
Jim Denham
AccessWorld May 2004

Closing The Gap

… a notetaker with a QWERTY keyboard and speech output. The Braille Voyager is a 44-cell braille display featuring the Tieman Express program … 4.0 of Window-Eyes. The new version introduces support for braille and Windows Millennium. Freedom Scientific announced …
Jay Leventhal
AccessWorld January 2001

Legends and Pioneers of Blindness Assistive Technology, Part 3

… technology that was developed for people who are blind was braille. According to the Inspiration Line Trivia and Facts … The Tactile Revolution According to the history of braille provided on the Enabling Technologies web site <www.brailler.com/braillehx.htm>, Valentin Haüy founded the first …
Anthony Candela
AccessWorld November 2006

Talkler App and the Future of Braille Get Readers Talking

… Connecting the Dots: A Brighter Spin on the Future of Braille , from the January 2013 issue of AccessWorld . As a braille user since the age of four (I'm now seventy-eight), … audio-watch, and an audio mp3 player, but I like to read my braille book and my braille magazine. As a radio presenter, …
AccessWorld February 2013

AccessWorld News

… John Boyer found that contemporary scientific material in braille was almost non-existent. John never lost the sense of frustration he felt when the braille resources available to him were insufficient to … University of Wisconsin in 1980. His first company was a braille publishing enterprise that served an international …
AccessWorld June 2012

Coupvray: Louis' Childhood Home

… Born in Coupvray Photograph of Louis Braille's home in Coupvray. A dirt road separates Louis' … the left from another house (possibly also belonging to the Braille family) on the right-hand side. A marble plaque … of the building. A cat sits on the road. No date. Louis Braille was born on January 4, 1809, in Coupvray, a small …

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