[laptop-accessibility] keyboard for the blind

[Aaron Cannon]

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Hi Peter.

I wrote to the person leading the effort as well as CCing the list as I
thought it would be of interest.

I got the information from the weekly email update to the
community-news at laptop.org mailing list from Walter Bender:
"18. Keyboards: Manusheel, Sayamindu Dasgupta, Roshan Kamat, Tushar
Sayankar, Jens Peterson, and Walter Bender have finished the layout for a
Deva keyboard (See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Devanagari_Keyboard ). We hope
to finish the Nepali and Pashto keyboards in the coming weeks. Manu is
leading a discussion on an OLPC keyboard for the blind. Please send your
ideas/feedback to manu<at>laptop<dot>org)."


Aaron

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From: "Peter Korn" <Peter.Korn at Sun.COM>
To: "Discussion of accessibility on the OLPC"
<accessibility at lists.laptop.org>
Cc: <manu at laptop.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: [laptop-accessibility] keyboard for the blind


> Hi Aaron,
>
>> I have been informed that you are in the process of designing a keyboard
>> for
>> the blind for the XO.  Being totally blind my self, and having learned to
>> touch-type at age six, I am curious about the project.  First, why is it
>> believed that a specialized keyboard is needed?  Is there something
>> unique
>> about the current XO laptop which makes it difficult to touch type with?
>> What adaptations are you considering?
>
> You have reached an e-mail discussion list, where folks interested in
> accessibility for the OLPC/XO discuss these matters.
>
> I am not aware of any work going on around a specific "keyboard for the
> blind for the XO".  However, if someone is working on that, it is a
> reasonable guess that they might be on this e-mail list.
>
>
> From where did you hear this?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Korn
> Accessibility Architect,
> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> _______________________________________________
> accessibility mailing list
> accessibility at lists.laptop.org
> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/accessibility

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