[duxuser] Duxbury Vs. Braille 2000
- From: <pdonahue1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 12:48:34 -0500
Good afternoon everyone,
First I'd like to beg the moderator's pardon. I hesitated posting this
message to the list since it's a competitive product to Duxbury, but a
situation with the course we're taking at school has us very concerned where
blind students being able to take this class goes. We recently learned
about a new Braille translator called Braille 2000. One of the classes
we're supposed to take in the fall is called Electronic Braille
Transcription. The software to be used is Braille 2000. Preliminary
investigations reveal that while Braille 2000 is a very powerful program it
is highly inaccessible to the blind effectively shutting out blind students
wanting to take this program. certain classes associated with this
particular program require the use of Braille 2000. To get back on base
We're wanting to know how Braille 2000 stacks up to Duxbury where it's
functionallity, and more importantly it's usability by blind Braille
transcribers is concerned. It appears that those who created the Braille
2000 Program failed to consider that blind Braille transcribers would want
to use their product. We plan to take this matter up with the school
administration in order to either have the software to be used switched back
to Duxbury until such time Braille 2000, or similar programs like it are
made blind-friendly, or to urge them to offer the same course using Duxbury.
There are other issues I could go in to, but it's beyond the scope of this
list. I'll look forward to hearing feedback on these programs and how they
stack up against each other. Thanks in advance.
Peter Donahue
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