<div>Thanks Aaron, Peter, and Big One(Sorry! I don't know your name) for the introduction and help.</div>
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<div>Me and Walter are currently working on the development of OLPC-Braille Keyboard.</div>
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<div>Aaron, you wrote:</div>
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<div>>What adaptations are you considering?<br> </div>
<div>We are at an initial stage, and are in the process of looking for a suitable layout. </div>
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<div>The first question we are searching about, at the moment is: Is Braille in US the same as Braille in India as Braille in China as Braille in Peru? If so, we can sum up with a separate keyboard mold for use everywhere--economies of scale.
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<div>Any pointers/feedback about it will be highly appreciated.</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Manu</div>
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<div>Manusheel Gupta</div>
<div>One Laptop Per Child Inc.</div>
<div><a href="http://laptop.org">http://laptop.org</a> </div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Aaron Cannon</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:cannona@fireantproductions.com" target="_blank">cannona@fireantproductions.com
</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: RIPEMD160<br><br>Hi Peter.<br><br>I wrote to the person leading the effort as well as CCing the list as I
<br>thought it would be of interest.<br><br>I got the information from the weekly email update to the<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:community-news@laptop.org" target="_blank">community-news@laptop.org
</a>mailing list from Walter Bender:<br>"18. Keyboards: Manusheel, Sayamindu Dasgupta, Roshan Kamat, Tushar <br>Sayankar, Jens Peterson, and Walter Bender have finished the layout for a<br>Deva keyboard (See <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Devanagari_Keyboard" target="_blank">
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Devanagari_Keyboard</a> ). We hope<br>to finish the Nepali and Pashto keyboards in the coming weeks. Manu is <br>leading a discussion on an OLPC keyboard for the blind. Please send your<br>ideas/feedback to manu<at>laptop<dot>org)."
<br><br><br>Aaron<br><br>- --<br>Skype: cannona<br>MSN/Windows Messenger: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:cannona@hotmail.com" target="_blank">cannona@hotmail.com</a> (don't send email to the hotmail
<br>address.)<br>- ----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Peter Korn" <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:Peter.Korn@Sun.COM" target="_blank">Peter.Korn@Sun.COM</a>><br>
To: "Discussion of accessibility on the OLPC" <br><<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:accessibility@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">accessibility@lists.laptop.org</a>>
<br>Cc: <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:manu@laptop.org" target="_blank">manu@laptop.org</a>><br>Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 11:09 PM<br>Subject: Re: [laptop-accessibility] keyboard for the blind
<br><br><br>> Hi Aaron,<br>><br>>> I have been informed that you are in the process of designing a keyboard<br>>> for<br>>> the blind for the XO. Being totally blind my self, and having learned to
<br>>> touch-type at age six, I am curious about the project. First, why is it<br>>> believed that a specialized keyboard is needed? Is there something<br>>> unique<br>>> about the current XO laptop which makes it difficult to touch type with?
<br>>> What adaptations are you considering?<br>><br>> You have reached an e-mail discussion list, where folks interested in<br>> accessibility for the OLPC/XO discuss these matters.<br>><br>> I am not aware of any work going on around a specific "keyboard for the
<br>> blind for the XO". However, if someone is working on that, it is a<br>> reasonable guess that they might be on this e-mail list.<br>><br>><br>> From where did you hear this?<br>><br>><br>> Regards,
<br>><br>> Peter Korn<br>> Accessibility Architect,<br>> Sun Microsystems, Inc.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> accessibility mailing list<br>> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:accessibility@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">
accessibility@lists.laptop.org</a><br>> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/accessibility" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/accessibility</a>
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