[laptop-accessibility] Input Devices For Blind/Impaired Users

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Great idea on Braille keyboards. Another idea is "Speech to Text" software for Linux / DOS (using DOSEMU or WINE). 

I hope charity organizations can donate XO laptops with special Braille hardware/software to blind students in poor, developing countries.

Various Braille software/hardware:

http://www.tsbvi.edu/technology/overview.htm#Braille Access

USB Braille Keyboard for Linux:

http://www.caretec.at/Keyboards_Software.1506.0.html?&cHash=80ed00b898&detail=1821

Bluetooth Braille Keyboard from Swiss (use Bluetooth to USB Converter):

http://www.sbv-fsa.ch/links/tipps/wireless_braille_e.htm

Braille Keyboard for scientific text and musical scores from Spain:

http://www.physorg.com/news11638.html

Old Linux speech to text HOWTO:

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Speech-Recognition-HOWTO.html

Java based speech to text free software:

http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/sphinx4/

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