[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Google's Braille logo today

[Sherry Gomes]

I'm a blind person from South Africa and I love reading myself.  I 
read braille books when I can and I'm trying to save enough money 
to get a pack mate.  Unfortunately, they're very expensive, so I'll 
have to wait a very long time before I can get it.  I can't wait to 
read the Harry Potter books in braille with my new pack mate!! 

Cairie (with a huge grin on my face)



Sherry
i've got a braille note, and I do have all the books in digital braille as
well as hard copy braille and audio.  It's so nice to be able to carry them
along wherever I go, because I use the braille note for work, and
appointments and various other things.

For others on the list, a pac Mate, or a braille note, are PDA's for the
blind, quite a bit bigger than a regular one, but still smaller than a
traditional lap top.  they have speech and refreshable braille displays.  A
refreshable braille display is a line of cells that display braille dots,
showing what is on the screen, if it's attached to a regular PC.  one of
these PDA devices for the blind does not have a screen, but the concept is
the same.

hard to explain, I think.

Sherry