Getting back to Apple selling Braille displays, does it include VAT (for the US users), Value Added Tax? This is a tax that people have to pay when buying expensive electronic things but if you have a specialist device that has been adapted for the end user such as equipment for the Blind, VAT is excluded.
I have two Braille displays but don’t seem to use them as much although I use braille daily as part of my job being a braille transcriber. If I want to remember notes, phone numbers etc, braille is what I need. I love braille on IOS but am disappointed that I can’t use braille on my Apple Computers. > On 13 May 2016, at 21:23, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > VU stands for Vario Ultra, the newest display from Baum. And just FYI, one > of it's features is multiple options for configuring how the panning keys > behave. I can't remember all the choices off-hand, but I'm pretty sure you > could set it up to pan the way you describe. > Cheers, > Donna >> On May 13, 2016, at 2:59 PM, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: >> >> I tend to agree with you, Donna. >> >> By the way, what is a VU? You wrote that you like that your VU is >> completely silent. >> >> As for me, I am a big fan of the Focus 40 Blue. >> >> One thing I cannot stand about using the Focus 40 Blue, in iOS particularly, >> is that one cannot switch the panning keys. >> >> Currently, although this was not always the case, one could use the left >> panning keys to advance the Braille display. Now, one can only use the >> right panning key to move right and the left panning key to move left. >> >> I, however, read Braille with my right index finger. In so doing, I much >> prefer to pan with my left hand, only. As it stands, I must now read and >> pan with my right hand. This causes an enormous amount of fatigue. >> >> In Windows, using Jaws, there is a reverse pan feature, thank goodness. >> >> I say all this to say that my next Braille display purchasing decision will >> be based on whether or not the device has a hardware, rather than a >> software, feature to allow reverse panning. >> >> If any of you know of such a device, please let me know. >> >> Mark >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin >> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 12:40 PM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: Apple store now stocking accessibility items >> >> Oh, and in answer to your question, Sabahattin, IOS devices are already >> pretty bloody close to replacing a notetaker, at least for me. But I think >> it may have come as close as its ever going to. First, it would have to >> have built-in braille, not something paired by bluetooth. I turn on the >> device and up comes the braille. There would have to be no lag between the >> device and the braille. I love that my VU is completely silent. If I wake >> up in the middle of the night and want to read, I just pick it up and turn >> it on. And since I was probably in my book in the Word Processor when I >> turned it off, I come right up to the place I left off when I last put it >> down. Easy peasy. >> >> It's funny, as I write this, it occurs to me that for me, having a notetaker >> is sort of my equivalent of having a Kindle or a Nook. And I know sighted >> people who have both a smart phone, and a reading device. It's really just >> a reading device, and sometimes a quick note-taking device. I like that >> it's separate from my phone. My reading will never be interrupted by any >> game, Facebook, text message, phone call, or one of the myriad of other >> alerts I might get from my phone. This is also why I have a separate iPod. >> There's nothing on it but my music and audiobooks, for the same reason. If >> I'm listening to music, I don't want the chatter from my phone cutting into >> it. Don't get me wrong, I love that my teeny tiny phone can do all this >> stuff. And there've been plenty of times I was very happy that that was the >> only device I needed to have with me, and it could keep me connected, >> entertained, and provide me with reading and music pleasure. But when >> traveling light is not an issue, I prefer doing these things on separate >> devices. Our phones are great, but boy they do make a racket. :) >> >> Just my thoughts. >> Cheers, >> Donna >> >>> On May 13, 2016, at 2:11 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com> wrote: >>> >>> I really dislike the FS braille displays, but did applaud their efforts to >>> go more mainstream than their Humanware rival on the notetaker front. >>> Inevitably, though, I stuck with BrailleNote because their most important >>> function, note-taking and braille translation, remained unparalleled in my >>> opinion, and above all things a note-taker must do is to be efficient, >>> which is another area Humanware really excel at and have done so right >>> through the Apex, which I now have. Now they’re going Android, there is >>> even more promise there, except for Google and privacy of course, and the >>> fact that it’s running a two-releases-outdated version of Android. I also >>> much prefer the thumb keys and elegant design of Humanware braille displays >>> to the fiddly alternatives. 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