Well I did get a couple but really never got into those that much.
I had a perkins and a older lavinder braille unit to start off with.
Sadly I was in the age before electronic braille came mainstream I
was always lugging it round.
I did use a braille to standard print unit for a time and did begin
to start with electronic braille but for whatever reason it never
happened right.
After I graduated to a querty board except for math there seemed
little reason to read braille let alone write it, the books were to
heavy, and I always dropped the unit, fell down the stairs with it or
smashed it into or hit it with things not to mention the frucking
keys kept breaking and had to be tied together with paperclips.
If I restarted school today I'd have an electronic braille note or
simular and I think they are pushing macs in a big way now.
At 11:27 a.m. 2/09/2014, you wrote:
Hi Charles,
You definitely show your age when you mention slate and stylus. In my
experience most younger blind people don't even know how to use one
let alone use it. With the growth of technology I only see braille
solutions like a slate and stylus becoming even less relevant to blind
users.
For example, in the 90's and early 2000's something like the slate and
stylus became obsolete when the VI market was flooded with note takers
like the Braille N' Speak, Type N' Speak, Braille Light, Braille Plus,
Pac Mate, etc. Now days a blind person is more likely to grab their
iPhone or iPad to jot down a quick note than anything else. There is
definitely a good reason for that.
When I first started losing my vision my VI teacher tried to teach me
how to use a slate and stylus along with using a brailler. Quite
frankly I never got the hang of the slate and stylus and even though I
could use it I found it painfully slow and tedious. So by the time I
went to junior high I got my parents to buy me a Braille N' Speak and
I put my slate and stylus in a drawer and pretty much forgot about it.
Most of my peers did the same.
On 9/1/14, Charles Rivard <wee1s...@fidnet.com> wrote:
> If a sighted person were to write them down for you, could you read their
> writing? A better solution would be a slate and stylus and a
piece of heavy
>
> paper.
>
> ---
> Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think
you're finished,
>
> you! really! are! finished!
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