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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: discussion of the rb utility at the recent dev conRe: discussion of the rb utility at the recent dev con
From: alex wallis <alexwallis646_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:36:42 +0100 > The rbutility devs have been doing great work on this tool and they've > made serious efforts to make it speak as good as possible. I think people > who wants it to work even better should consider joining the effort and > help things happen, not just throw in good advice as an audience. I agree, and I might drop a few manufacturers a line, though not sure how much help they will turn out to be, still we'll see. > I was under the impression the console version would be prefered by blind > users (and no - it doesn't mean lots of typing on command lines) since it > would not be a GUI and thus you could use braille terminals etc for it and > this not be forced to use only screen readers. Was this wrong thinking on > my behalf? Unfortunately yes, as blind people can still access GUIS with braille displays. Also, Braille terminals as you call them, usually called braille displays are very expensive, offten a hell of a lot more than a screen reader, for a braille display that has a fairly good number of sells which are what produces the braille, as they pop up in particular combinations to form the letters as needed, your looking at paying several thousand £ or $ pprobably at minimum 2 or 3000. While there are a few people who have braille displays, they I would suggest are in the minority. Also, just because a person has a braille display for output it doesn't necessarily follow they will have a method of inputting in braille. And i'm only speaking from a personal point of view here, i'm sure there will be others on this list who disagree, but I prefer both input from an ordinary quirty keyboard and output from a screen reader, as I find I absorb information more quickly with the screen reader, and also I don't own a braille display. In most cases a braille display simply is a method of output, and even if a person did have the method to input with braille, they would still have to type in commands, which actually might be more fiddly on a braille display, I don't no as I don't own one, so comments any display users? Is the console version command line in the sense that dos was command line? or is it kind of like a wizard. Unfortunately I haven't been able to use the console version, as last time I asked about it there wasn't a compiled version available as far as I no, and I think the consensus was that it couldn't be compiled from cygwin. Received on 2008-07-01 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |