[duxuser] Re: Regular keyboard "six-key" versus braille notetaker
- From: "Kaari Parrish" <kparrish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:33:12 -0800
I'd like to answer this as a formerly sighted person. ASCII braille is
the world's worst pain in the butt to type.
The file may end up identical but the entry method sure isn't.
Remembering to use an "e r" contraction is fine, but now I'm also supposed
to remember that an "e r" is a percent sign? Or is it a dollar sign? Or a
slash? I have obviously forgotten.
After awhile, using braille contractions becomes automatic, but the
ACSII code just doesn't. Example: Your can was on the shelf. In ACSII
braille, it's comma y r c zero on exclamation mark percent sign e l f 4. I'm
sorry, but I was never able to learn to read that, much less type, edit, and
proofread.
That's why we like 6-key entry.
Kaari
-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Susan Jolly
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 9:13 AM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Regular keyboard "six-key" versus braille notetaker
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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