SV: [UACCESS-L] FW: Disabled students can't work within demands ofFCAT

[Lisa Yayla <Lisa.Yayla@KS-HUSEBY.NO>]

Hi,
You wrote about one graphic display.
You might be interested in this article about another
a Rotating-Wheel Based  Refreshable Braille Display
by NIST.  It apparently will not be very expensive.
The link to the article is
 http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/isis/projects/brailleproject.html 

And while speaking about graphics I would like to put a little
plug in for another email list that deals with tactile/adapted graphics
the address is
http://www.topica.com/lists/adaptedgraphics/

Lisa Yayla
Huseby Kompetansesenter 
Oslo Norway
lisa.yayla@statped.no

-----Opprinnelig melding-----
Fra: Jason White [mailto:jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au]
Sendt: 15. januar 2003 02:26
Til: Jennison Asuncion
Kopi: uaccess-l
Emne: Re: [UACCESS-L] FW: Disabled students can't work within demands
ofFCAT


Jennison Asuncion writes:
 > When I was n elementary and even high school, I
 > used a combination of Braille and a Taylor's Slate and type. Anyone
else
 > out there use this? the Taylor's Slate was much like a pencil-paper,
 > because it was easily manipulated. It was great for venn
 > diagrams...Jennison

Did it consist of a board with a rubber surface on which plastic
sheets were placed? I had one such device at school and used it to
produce raised line diagrams of various kinds. There were set squares
provided also, with indentations to mark each centimetre. One side of
the board was also indented in this way, in centimetres as well if I
remember correctly.

I don't think superior technology will become available until an
engineer invents a full-page text and graphic tactile display.
Actually, I was informed (about five or six years ago in an e-mail
discussion) that the University of Stuttgart had such a display,
developed by Metec and Papenmeier and comprising a large pin array
driven by an electromagnetic mechanism. Apparently it was capable of
displaying braille text and graphics, the latter including animations.
The cost, needless to say, was enormous. There were also two so-called
mice that could be placed at any location on the display, the position
of which could be detected precisely to the nearest pin. The device was
connected to a computer via a serial interface. Let's admit it: I want
one. Let's also admit that the price is several orders of magnitude
greater than anything I could possibly afford.
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