Reply to: You couldn't make this up: Man with no eyes was driving car

[DaveB]

Tony, have a word with your local Lions group as well. They also provide charitable funds for cases like this and blindness and visual impairment are one of their core areas.

Rotary Club also do much the same thing.

[mcquiggd]

Braille TV... with all those saturday morning dolly birds on the telly you'd feel a right tit....

[BoredBloke]

I lived in Yorkshire for a while. I guess I picked up a few of the local traditions. Surely your dad could have told you that.

[Jesus]

I thought is was those Yorkshire types who would peel an orange in their pockets

[BoredBloke]

Its a northern thing Jebus!

We're all like that up here.

[Jesus]

You tight wad Tony

[BoredBloke]

Cheers

[Churchill]

Nope - don't know any freemasons.

I can't understand why they are so expensive. I'm guessing it is the lack of economies of scale. At the end of the day it is a printer which punches up to 6 dots into a bit of card. I must admit it is holding him back now. If he finds anything on the internet he had to type it out using his perkins brailler because writing is not an option and neither are any of the printers.

Everything for the visually impaired is expensive when it comes to IT. The screen reader he uses (Jaws for windows) retails at £800. They do a time limited demo copy which means the PC has to be rebooted every 40 mins. I tried getting a cracked copy off emule, but the crack screws it up completely.

Tony, I'm back up North at the weekend, I'll have a chat with a few of my 'friends' and get some contact details. I'll PM you with the info.

[BoredBloke]

Nope - don't know any freemasons.

I can't understand why they are so expensive. I'm guessing it is the lack of economies of scale. At the end of the day it is a printer which punches up to 6 dots into a bit of card. I must admit it is holding him back now. If he finds anything on the internet he had to type it out using his perkins brailler because writing is not an option and neither are any of the printers.

Everything for the visually impaired is expensive when it comes to IT. The screen reader he uses (Jaws for windows) retails at £800. They do a time limited demo copy which means the PC has to be rebooted every 40 mins. I tried getting a cracked copy off emule, but the crack screws it up completely.

[Churchill]

Have you seen the price of a braille printer. Wanted to get the sprog one but they are hugely expensive - for something which is just a heavy duty dot matrix printer.

Cr@p Braille Printer only $1,895.00

Tony, are any of your mates Freemasons? Most Lodges have a local charity fund for things like this.

[sasguru]

If or when you get blind, you will see it differently.

Nice one!

[BoredBloke]

Have you seen the price of a braille printer. Wanted to get the sprog one but they are hugely expensive - for something which is just a heavy duty dot matrix printer.

Cr@p Braille Printer only $1,895.00

[xoggoth]

That's an idea, braille TV. Like those novelty things with all the little pins that show a relief shape of what you press them against. You make a screen with a much larger version, each pin is attached to a solenoid powered according to the brightness of the screen pixel at that point. Hey presto, blind people could feel Diehard 3.

[BoredBloke]

"How do you think BBC radio is payed for"

Do you need a license to listen to the radio?

Do you need one to listen to the digital radio channels on the tellly.

My son is totally blind and uses the telly a bit to listen to BBC7. Although many channels do carry audio description, it doesn't interest him much. He actually gets more enjoyment from the internet than anything the BBC tax pays for

[AtW]

Totally disagree.

If or when you get blind, you will see it differently.