Forums Feature Suggestions Braille inside the left side of the banner

I want to create a script and inside the left side of the bannersthere would be braille and on the right side of the banner it would say what the left side said in print.

I have been wondering if it could be done and if so would someone please help me create one??

sincerely,
Hill

You're not intending to use the braille as an aid for thos ewith seeing disabilities, are you?

Erm, don't you have to TOUCH Braille in order to read it? I don't think anyone's invented a system yet whereby the computer screen is flexible and pops out to make Braille. Otherwise I would have thought it would be pretty useless if you can't touch Braille, because the sight of it does not make sense. I'm not sure too many blind or "hard of seeing" people use IRC due to the fact it's 99% text based, although I do know of one person - they use a speech syntheziser that tends to keep up with the channel except when there's a bot flood.

Anyway, I don't know if Braille could be put in a script (via mIRC scripting anyway).

Regards,

you could paste contacts lenses onto the screen and make it look like someone is typing, that would be a good april fools joke

lol :P

For 12 pairs of contact lenses it costs £150 ($265) so I don't think I'll be sticking them to computer screens *g*

Regards,

oh come on

1 bottle of glue - $10 dollars
12 pairs of contact lenses - $265 dollars
Gluing the contact lenses on a computer screen to make a blind man think he's reading braille - Priceless

thats nearly as funny as mentality's avatar

LOL argv0! *hands over cookie for cheering me up*

As for you morphium, I seriously hope you posted that BEFORE I changed my avatar back to my normal pic :P *G*

Regards,

I could see where he means the normal one.

that may have been your idea of humour, but please lets not try to start an insult/flame war

Seems to me I have heard of a braille reader for computers. It attaches as an external peripheral, similar to an external keypad, but has a smooth surface with holes that pins are pushed up through in a pattern depending on the letter being read. I will attempt to try to find some reference to such a device.

In the mean time, I will also post here any of the other references I find while searching for "braille + computer" ...

Woodlake Technologies - appears to be speech to voice conversion.

About Braille - An educational page about different types of braille.

International Braille Research Center - Fascinating information and additional research links.

Trynameks - This looks the most promising so far. There is a listing for braille displays, but, unfortunately, when I clicked on it, I got a message that the page was being updated.

Robotron - A braille palmtop device.

ScreenReader.co.uk - Various products available. Didn't get into it deep enough to verify whether they offer a braille reader, but it looked like they might.

Blindness Resource Center - This site has a lot of information and resource links. It is also the first one I've seen that had a "braille" link.

Sighted Electronics - FINALLY! Success. There are several braille readers available here. They've come a long way from the (obviously prototype) one I saw which only displayed single letters.

Hope this helps.

[Added]
I continued looking and found the following that may be of some interest:

BrailleNote - A standalone braille "keyboard" thay may also be used to interface with a standard computer.

SensoryTools - Offers several touch sensitive devices, including a talking compass!

Louis Braille - A short history of how Braille notation came to be.

FreedomScientific - More products offered for vision impaired users.

BRL, Inc. - More products for visually impaired. I thought their domain name was rather catchy, WYFIWYG = What You Feel Is What You (Get?)