The Brailliant is pretty good, I like the braille. This is however the first display I've owned myself and had access to for more than a half hour or so. Moving from speech to braille has been a bit of a shift and I'll begin another thread, but all in all a good experience. On 2012-10-01, at 9:00 PM, Annie Skov Nielsen <annieskovniel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. > The brailliant display has in my opinion much better braille cells. The > brailliant has a much better carrying case, it can not fall out, the focus > can fall out of the bag. You can have the brailliant display sitting on your > knees, that can be a little insecure with the focus. There are some > advantages with the focus as well, but to me the braille cells seems noisy. > > I sometimes wonder why most blind people are choosing 40 cells braille > displays. I feel much better with something like 32 cells, and it is a little > more handy too. > > The only thing I do not like about brailliant is that I sometimes experience > problems with the bluetooth conectivity on IPhone, but maybe that has been > solved on IPhone 5, it looks like there has been some improvements in IOS 6. > > I am both using brailliant and focus. It is important that your student tries > the displays, because it is so different how the display works for > individuals. > Best regards Annie. > > Den Oct 2, 2012 kl. 12:29 AM skrev "M. Taylor" <mk...@ucla.edu>: > >> Marianne, >> >> I strongly recommend the Focus since your student is a Jaws user. >> >> There are definite user advantages to using the Focus with Jaws such as >> being able to set the level of Braille firmness. This is one of my favorite >> features. >> >> I also like the ability to reverse the Braille panning directions on the >> Focus. I am not certain if this is a Focus specific setting in Jaws, but it >> is definitely a proverbial game changer for me. >> >> Mark >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Marianne Denning >> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 3:18 PM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: braille display >> >> Scott, I think I have narrowed it down to either the Brailliant 40 or Focus >> 40. Since he uses JAWS the Focus 40 may be the better choice. >> That is what I am hoping to learn. >> >> On 10/1/12, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote: >>> Hello out there. >>> I just bought a new braille display, and so far I like it. It is new >>> to the Mac and IOS devices. I got the Braille Edge 40 this past >>> weekend. The inputs are actually doing better than I was having with >>> my Focus 40. I didn't have ghluetooth before, and I do not now. This >>> display also can be a stand-alone device. It doesn't go on the >>> Internet like say my PacMate in theory does, but I decided I didn't need >> that, what with having the Mac and the iPhone. >>> >>> So far the only thing I'm having is loosing connection with the iPhone >>> and having to re-establish it. This only has happened when I turn the >>> Braille display off or get out of communication with the iPhone. I may >>> have to inquiffe about that. It doesn't lose contact while operating >>> so far, and I didn't have the same problem with the Mac. I've only had >>> it since Friday, so maybe I'm doing something wrong. If anybody has >>> any ideas, please let me know. >>> Regards, >>> Gigi >>> >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Oct 1, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Scott Berry <sb356...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Do you have any braille displays in mind? Humanware has some. So >>>> does Freedom Scientific. >>>> >>>> >>>> Scott >>>> On 9/30/2012 12:42 PM, Marianne Denning wrote: >>>>> This is a cross post because I hope for several responses. I am >>>>> purchasing a braille display for an elementary student. This >>>>> student has excellent skills with access technology. The student >>>>> will be using it with an IDevice and a Mac running OS 10 and Windows >>>>> 7. JAWS is the screen reader on Windows. I want a portable display >>>>> but not too small so I am looking at a 32 cell display or a 40 cell >> display. >>>>> Please let me know your experiences. 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