A modified Perkins Brailler for text entry into windows applications.
In this paper, we describe how a Perkins Brailler can be adapted so that it can function as a keyboard to a personal computer. The paper describes the earlier work of others and the hardware and software of our system and concludes with indications of how the system may be improved.
Evans
David Gareth
DG
Department of Computation, UMIST, Manchester M60 1QD, UK.
Pettitt
Stephen
S
Blenkhorn
Paul
P
D001766:Blindness / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D003143:Communication Devices for People with Disabilities; D016288:Computer Terminals; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D011932:Reading; D012682:Sensory Aids; D012984:Software; D014175:Translating; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D015443:Word Processing / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods