Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx and braille

[Les Wallis]

Further to this thread, braille terminals are available (v. expensive) to
dynamically display 20, 40 or 80 characters from one screen line. This can
be combined with intelligent software that will track cursor position,
color combinations, word strings etc and sequentially (or not read) 
various designated screen areas. 

The braille terminal consists of a line of braille electro-mechanical
"dots" which can pop up to represent the braille equivalent of each
character displayed in the current line or part of a line. 

We have one client who is completely deaf and severely vision impaired.
Her access to e-mail via PINE and to the internet via LYNX, has radically
changed her life. Because of her hearing impairment speech synthesisers
are no good to her, but she uses a braille terminal.


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Les Wallis                                 Information Services Department
Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind    Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
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On Wed, 14 May 1997 address@hidden wrote:

> On 1997-05-13 address@hidden said:
>  ly>For the benefit of enlightening those of us who are multi-sense
>  ly>deprived (otherwise known as sighted), could someone describe for
>  ly>us how one uses lynx and braille?
> 
> I am a italian blind person and I am using since about two hears first lynx 
> for
> linux system and now lynx for dos system also. I am equiped with a braille
> device that is piloted from a hardware card; but in my work I often use others
> braille lines and voice synthesizers.
> 
>  ly>Is there somehow a Braille
>  ly>'screen' that one can use with cursor positioning, etc.?
> 
> For blind people using braille lines, the use of system cursor from the
> applications makes more simple its tracking than the definition of a sort of
> screen attribute (colour).
> Best regards to all members and developers of lynx.
> P.S.: don't forget the blind persons; thanks to your precious work they can
> now access to the "NET.
> thank you again.
> 
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