[duxuser] Re: Regular keyboard "six-key" versus braille notetaker
- From: "Kathy Riessen" <kathy.riessen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:02:10 +0930
As a sighted person who knows her ascii equivalents extremely well, I still
prefer to use the braille keyboard rather than type in the ascii
equivalents.
The Braille keyboard is much faster as all the keys are under my fingers and
I don't have to move around the keyboard to type simple words. Many simple
contractions (the, and, of, with, ch, sh, ed) need the shift key with the
number keys and so are still slower for an experienced typist. Give me a
braille keyboard any day when I want to enter braille directly.
As for simulated braille being hard on the old eyes, I am used to that, and
it keeps up my braille reading skills.
Kathy
-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Susan Jolly
Sent: Tuesday, 19 September 2006 2:43 AM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Regular keyboard "six-key" versus braille notetaker
The reason I suggested exporting a plain braille file is that Jean is adept
at using her braille notetaker and had already stated that she found
"six-key cumbersome just because of the 'feel' of the keys."
I know I'm starting to sound like a broken record here but I STILL don't
understand why sighted persons who already know how to use a standard
keyboard don't learn to do direct entry braille using ASCII Braille.
Simulated braille dots are hard on the visual system and simulated "six-key"
typing using standard keyboard keys can be hard on the hands.
You can enter braille as ASCII Braille using any text editor or word
processor and then just change the font if you want to see the dots.
Six-key typing and full keyboard typing are just two different ways of
entering the same electronic information into a computer. The resulting
file is identical.
SusanJ
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