There is a free TTY site on the web where, using a screen reader and a Braille display (such as our ever-loving Braillenotes), one can make calls to speech or hearing impaired individuals who have TTYs or the Nextalk service. It is FREE and with the adaptations mentioned, fully accessible. A simple terminal program would be the only thing needed if someone wanted to use the BN as a TTY with a TTY compatible modem attached to the serial port.
Reminds me of the heady days of DOS bulletin boards. Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisa Kozlik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 11:13 AM Subject: [Braillenote] BrailleNote as a TTY > Frank, > > As a deafblind BrailleNote user, I would also love to use my BN as a TTY > and/or face to face communication device. This suggestion has been brought > up repeatedly, so hopefully, PDI has "something" in the works. <smile> > > In the meantime, you may want to purchase a computer TTY program called > NexTalk-VM. NexTalk allows you to make and receive TTY calls via your > computer. (I use this program at home and it works great with a Braille > display.) If you'd like more information, please feel free to write me > off-list. > > Lisa > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Frank M Hernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Braillenote List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:27 AM > Subject: Re: [Braillenote] A fun use of BrailleNote > > > Good for you, > > You make us Bn users proud. > I play the piano for a babtest "However you spell that!" church and I also > use my BN. > I place it on top of the piano, well, it's not a piano, it's a old Keyboard, > and I read my song list. > I've also started teaching parts to the chorus and I keep notes in the BN > too. > Although I do not know how to write BRAILLE music notation I just write out > the parts using letters. I've made my own musical notation. > > I love my BN and everything it helps me to do. > > I wish I could use my BN as a TTY, TDD. > I have deaf friends and coworkers and this would greatly help me. > I hope sometime in the future the BN can do this. > It would make my life so much eazyer. > OH!!! I wish it could do more with E-MAILS too. > > The BN is a great thing and I don't know how I could ever live with out it. > > I love to read in what new ways users are using the BN. > > Frank M. Hernandez in Tucson Arizona. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >From: Peggy Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: Braillenote List <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 18:22:13 -0800 > >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] A fun use of BrailleNote > > >Yeah, it probably did look a little funny, but I figured it would educate > >the assembly about ways blind people do things, and the solo needed to be > >sung, so it worked. <grin > > >Peggy > > >At 03:21 PM 3/15/2004 -0800, you wrote: > >>Hi, Peggy. I tried using my braille lite 18 in choir once. One of the > >>members laughed and told me I looked like R2D2. My wife said; no. He > looks > >>more like C3P O. My braille note qt is larger. I suppose it would look > >>pretty funny with a keyboard protruding from my stomach<grin>. > >>But I used to use my blt all the time. Usually, I didn't hang it around > my > >>neck, but just held it below my waist in my right hand and read and > >>advanced with my right. I don't think this would work with my qt as it is > >>so much larger. > > >>At 3/14/2004, you wrote: > > >>>Hi, guys. Now that I have gps and the new planner and case for my > >>>BrailleNote, I pretty much carry it everywhere, just in case I need to > >>>write something down. Well Saturday evening, the lady who was supposed > >>>to sing part of a song as a solo didn't show up. I was asked if I could > >>>fill in, but wasn't sure if I knew all the words to the solo part. No > >>>problem. A fellow choir member read them to me, I jotted them down, and > >>>when the time came, with the BN around my neck, I read and sang the > >>>solo. What fun! > > >>>Peggy > > > > >>>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>http://www.home.earthlink.net/~kernsac > >>>MSN Messenger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >>>___ > >>>To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > >>>http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > >>Paul Henrichsen > >><[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >><home.pacbell.net/paulh52 > > > > >>___ > >>To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > >>http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://www.home.earthlink.net/~kernsac > >MSN Messenger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >___ > >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > > > --- > avast! 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