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Re: NEWS: braille writer for tablets

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From: Paul J. Adam
Date: Nov 3, 2011 6:42PM

This is a pretty cool idea but it's not available as an app for the iPad. I saw the developer at the FCC's accessibility awards. It was running on the android tablet shown in that video. When I asked him if he's making an iPad app he said this was something that should be included in the operating system of both platforms by default. I doubt Apple will be interested in collaborating on that. Would be great if he can convince Google to put it into android by default though!

I think a few news stories have mistakenly said it runs on iPad, but I've never seen a video with it running on anything other than android.

On Nov 3, 2011, at 8:01 PM, Bevi Chagnon wrote:

> Stanford University released news about a new technology developed by a
> summer course student that I think might revolutionize computer technology,
> and not just for blind users but for everyone.
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> Full article:
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> http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/10/student-spends-summer-turning-a-tablet-in
> to-a-braille-writer-sa/
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> This braille writer app runs on tablets (iPads, Droids) and brings the
> braille keys to the user's fingers rather than forcing a user's fingers to
> find the keys. Watch the video in the news piece above.
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