[BRLTTY] Would BRLTTY be of use on Android?

[S. Massy]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:47:23AM -0600, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> On 11/17/2011 10:31 AM, Rob Hudson wrote:
> >I'm all for braille support, but doesn't that sorta defeat the
> >purpose of a mobile phone? Not discouraging, just asking
> >questions.
> 
> How, exactly? Stop thinking of only phones, and realize that we're
> talking about tablets as well. Also, stop thinking of them as
> devices for talking and texting, but rather as small computers.
> People are already surfing the web, reading books and performing
> other tasks on their iDevices in Braille, and it seems to work for
> them. If you don't want that, just leave the portable display
> behind.
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Nolan is quite right, I have a Nokia E71 with TALKS and using my vario
40 in conjunction with a mobile bluetooth keyboard and quickoffice is
the most flexible manner to write on the go I have yet found.

I'm glad to see accessibility on Android progressing. I briefly owned a
G1 when they came out with the nascent accessibility squite of the time,
but being unable to upgrade my phone (for utterly daft provider reasons)
effectively prevented me from benefitting from, or contributing to, any
further developments, which is why I switched to Symbian. If
accessibility on Android is sufficient by the time my Nokia gives up the
ghost, I'd very much like to go back to an open platform.

Cheers,
S.M.


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